Burma Out!! S Africa

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Re-post ..   thanks George.



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Rangoon, "Xinhua," 29 October


South Africa Protest

The leader and 30 other members of the Confederation of 
South African Trade Union (Cosatu) were expelled from a 
major trade show in South Africa after protesting the 
participation of Burma's military regime. Cosatu  
Secretary-General Zwelinzima Vavi said that Cosatu is 
demanding that the South African government "cut all ties" 
with the military junta, which he said is guilty of "forced 
slave labour, extra-judicial killings, child labour and 
suppression of basic human rights." [Cosatu, South Africa's 
leading labor grouping, was a crucial force in the anti-apartheid 
struggle. The Burmese junta has dismissed offers by retired 
President Nelson Mandela to help mediate an end to Burma's 
political stalemate-Ed.]

Johannesburg, "South African Press Association," 21