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BBC-Burma protest arrests



Monday, August 16, 1999 Published at 12:36 GMT 13:36 UK
BBC-World: Asia-Pacific

Burma protest arrests

The military authorities in Burma say they are questioning a number of
people after disturbances in the southern town of Mergui.

The government spokesman would give few details but an exiled Burmese
student organisation in Bangkok ASBDF said thirty high school students had
been arrested after staging a protest in Mergui, calling for democratic
reform and an end to military oppression and economic hardship.

The protestors called for support for an uprising next month on "Four Nines"
day 9-9-99, to commemmorative the previous pro-democracy movement suppressed
on 8-8-88.

>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service