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Phone Maw day



Burma's Human Rights Day


          Coming March 13th is Burma's Human Rights Day because in that 
day in 1988 a student named Phone Maw and other five students were shot 
to dead while they were demonstrating in front of Rangoon Institute of 
Technology (RIT) by the Burmese military troops. 

          Students, monks, workers and people have been demanding their 
basic rights such as freedom of expression, organizations, publication, 
travelling, and freedom of trading for more than three decades. 

          Phone Maw death was the turning point in the Burmese history.

          Military could no longer silence its people and allow them to 
form political parties, even though they do not wish to. 

          Unfortunately, still Burma is under military boots; democracy 
and human rights are not available for the Burmese people in the present 
time. Burmese still live as military's slaves, still struggling against 
military dictatorship. 

          We have to work harder than in the past to fulfill the wishes 
of the martyr like Phone Maw and unknown heroes. 

         We promise that their wishes are not in vain and we have the 
duty to fulfill their wishes for equality, human rights and democracy.  

        Historical four eight nation wide demonstrations toppled down 
the BSPP regime and coming four nine on September 9, 1999 will end the 
military rule in Burma, if we believe ourselves, if we are united and if 
we are working hard. 

       Then the lives of the heroes, which were terminated by the 
ruthless military regime, will not be in vain. Their souls will be free 
and Burma will become the proud nation in the world once again. 


Civil Society for Burma
13 March 1999


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