Burmese Democracy Activist Seeks U.

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World News Brief from Washington Post 10th April 1999

Burmese Democracy Activist Seeks U.N. Help

                  BANGKOK -- Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi says U.N.
rights officials
                  must move to stop what she calls the "criminal activities"
of Burma's ruling
                  military against its political opponents.

                  In a videotaped message to the Geneva-based U.N. Human
Rights
                  Commission, Suu Kyi called 1998 the worst year in the
decade for
                  repression by Burma's military government. Her opposition
party is in tatters
                  and hundreds of its members are in jail.