[burmanet2-l] BBC-British woman rep

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Subject: Re: [burmanet2-l] BBC-British woman reportedly arrested in Burma 

British had enslaved our country more than a century.
They had occupied the daughter of our National hero General Aung San. Why can't they satisfy and what more they want from us?

ok 
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On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 01:57:35    TIN KYI wrote:
>Tuesday, September 7, 1999 Published at 16:12 GMT 17:12 UK
>BBC World: Asia-Pacific
>
>British woman reportedly arrested in Burma
>
>Reports from Burma say the authorities there have detained a British woman,
>who was shouting pro-democracy slogans in a street protest in Rangoon.
>
>One eyewitness said the woman tied her hands to a lamp-post at an
>intersection and shouted slogans for a short time before she was taken away
>by police.
>
>The British foreign ministry says it's urgently investigating the reports.
>The Burmese authorities sentenced a British man, James Mawdsley, to
>seventeen years in prison last week after convicting him of repeatedly
>entered Burma carrying pro-democracy material and staging protests against
>the authorities.
>
>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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