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Thursday, March 9, 2000
Issue # 1482

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____________________ NOTED IN PASSING ___________________
                                                    
 "Don't cry, the SPDC (Burmese government) is coming."

What Karen mothers tell their children to scare them into
not crying. (See MAINICHI DAILY NEWS: BACKDOOR BURMA)
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*Inside Burma
THE NATION: BURMA ALLOWS ICRC TO VISIT JAILS
MAINICHI DAILY NEWS: BACKDOOR BURMA
THE ASIAN AGE (India): FRESH CASES OF TB REPORTED IN BURMA
SHAN: VILLAGERS PAYING "OPIUM TAX" TO DEPARTING JUNTA COMMANDER


*International
THE NATION: JUNTA SLAMS NATIONS INVOLVED IN FORUM 
BANGKOK POST: THAILAND PUSHES SOFT TOUCH
BANGKOK POST: TROOPS KILL 5 WA DRUG SMUGGLERS
BANGKOK POST: BURMESE INTRUDERS ARRESTED
BURMANET: HARVARD'S KENNEDY SCHOOL ADOPTS BURMA SELECTIVE PURCHASING
KYODO: MYANMAR TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO LAOS



*Other
BURMANET: NPR RADIO TO AIR IN DEPTH PIECE ON UNOCAL PIPELINE FRIDAY
TEXT OF KENNEDY SCHOOL STUDENT GOVERNMENT FREE BURMA RESOLUTION 


______________________ INSIDE BURMA ________________________

THE NATION: BURMA ALLOWS ICRC TO VISIT JAILS

March 9, 2000


RANGOON - Burma's military junta has granted permission 
to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to 
visit the country's prison labour campjs, ICRC officials 
said yesterday.

"The visits will start this Friday," ICRC head-of-
delegation Leon de Riedmatten. "This is an important 
task."

Riedmatten said the government's decision to allow ICRC 
inspections of prison labour camps was an important step 
forward in cooperation with the international 
organization, whose main task is to monitor and assure 
standard protection for political prisoners worldwide.

ICRC closed its Burma office in 1995 due to lack of 
cooperation with authorities on prisoner protection.

It reopened a small programme in Shan State, eastern 
Burma, in 1998, and resumed a countrywide prison 
inspection operation in May last year.

Deutshe Presse-Agentur.


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MAINICHI DAILY NEWS: BACKDOOR BURMA

Japan, March 8, 2000


"An illegal entry popular with journalists and aid workers
provides a window on the Southeast Asian Nation's Woes, 
reports Richard Humphries"

If you enter Burma via Rangoon customs officials will demand 
that you change 300 US dollars before they let you pass. The 
cash-starved military dictatorship is desperate for foreign 
currency to prop its ailing economy and to continue its 
harsh rule. Domestic airlines and major hotels also insist 
on payment in dollars or their equivalent. Tourism is seen 
as a prop and one to be fully exploited.

There is, however, a backdoor to Burma but it is not for 
tourists. Mostly, a few journalists and aid workers use it. 
Those who take that route are not told to fork over money. 
Anything that is given, though, is put to far better use 
than to that which supports a much-hated government. It 
is a place where a microcosm of Burma's troubles can be 
witnessed.

>From the Thai-Burma border town of Mae Sot, you travel for 
several hours north along a lonely highway, then turn left 
and continue for eight kilometers to a small Thai-Karen 
village that hugs the Moei river, which forms the border 
between Thailand and Burma. There you wait for a rickety 
bamboo raft to take you across to the settlement of Mae 
Hla Po Tha. The boatman pushes you along while in the river. 
The water is above his shoulders at times. There is no 
customs or immigration. And what you are doing is 
technically illegal.

Since 1998 at least 4,000 ethnic Karen men, women and 
children have been living in Mae Hla Po Tha. It is not 
a normal village, one whose roots stretch back for 
generations. The people here are, in the parlance of 
international humanitarian semantics, internally 
displaced refugees or IDPs.

Internal displacement is not a new phenomenon. For 
centuries people have been moved through forcible expulsion 
or have simply left on their own through fear. Today, while 
an estimated 13 million refugees worldwide have managed 
to cross international borders to a sort of often tenuous 
sanctuary, some 20 to 25 million more internally 
displaced either can't or won't leave their countries.

International Humanitarian Law does state that civilians 
can not be forced from their homes unless their safety 
or "imperative military reasons" require it. Burma has 
often been at war with its ethnic minorities, and 
particularly the Karen, since independence. Therefore, 
there certainly is a large gray area within the term 
"imperative military reasons." Not that it matters 
here. Burma has violated international humanitarian 
laws repeatedly without any qualms, showing that such 
international understandings can be toothless in the 
face of facts on the ground.

Conditions are getting worse for those who have managed
to cross to Thailand, particularly since the debacle over 
the seizure of a hospital by the Karen "God's Army" 
faction. Sources in Mae Sot reported that, in early 
February this year, Thai police forcibly took ten 
truckloads of refugees across the border.

The inhabitants of Mae Hla Po Tha originally lived 
in 6 villages (Mae Hla Akee, Mae Hla Ahta, Mae Kek, 
Kle Po Klo, Pway Paw Lay, and Pa Ngwe Bu) in Burma's 
remote Dawna Hills Range. When the Burmese Army 
attacked their area in October 1998, they fled 
en masse.

At first they crossed into Thailand at a point near Mae 
Osu. The Thais gave them a choice. They could stay for 
20 days but then had to either go into the main refugee 
camp at Mae La or go back. The villagers suspected that 
life in a Thai refugee camp would be a dead end. 
Inhabitants are not meant to grow crops but to rely on 
international handouts and await the day when they can 
return, voluntarily or otherwise. Several cross-border 
attacks by Burmese soldiers, and their dissident Karen 
allies, on refugee camps meant that safety was relative 
in any event.

This group wished to preserve some measure of independence 
and keep open the possibility of returning to their lands 
at a time of their own choosing. They rejected going to Mae 
La and returned across the river where they remain today. 
This has meant some freedom but severe deprivation. Mae Hla 
Po Tha does not have the resources to immediately support 
a large influx of people. Additionally, while large 
international humanitarian relief organizations can and do 
support the 80,000 Karen refugees inside Thailand they are, 
or feel, constrained about crossing an international border 
to support IDPs, whose condition is, if anything, more 
parlous. Smaller private groups and concerned individuals 
are attempting to fill the gap as best they can.

Fear is not so visible on the immediate surface although 
the Burmese Army is only a few hours walk away. One Karen 
man stated that, "For us Karen, we know how to escape in 
the jungle like a wild chicken. We have had lots of 
practice. Even the children know to stay quiet."

In fact, Karen mothers curb their children's crying, 
even in peaceful periods, by saying, "Don't cry, the 
SPDC (Burmese government) is coming."

I visited during the dry season. The camp was organized 
into several sections, corresponding to the refugees' 
villages of origin. People were using the dry times to 
re-roof their ramshackle wood and bamboo dwellings 
with tied leaves. Some houses had donated plastic 
sheeting for roofing but this only accentuated the 
atmosphere of poverty Compared with established 
Karen refugee camps in Thailand, Mae Hla Po Tha, 
was much poorer. The lack of an adequate supply 
of clean water was pronounced. River water needed 
to be boiled. The camp did possess a small school 
and down by the river, a clinic with five young medics 
in attendance.

Although the clinic was officially open from 8 AM to 
2 PM, a female medic stated that people effectively 
came at all hours. Acute respiratory infections were 
the biggest problem and were widespread, though 
falciparum malaria and childbirth difficulties also 
occurred frequently. In addition, the nature of the 
ethnic conflict in Burma has meant that at Mae Hla 
Po Tha, and elsewhere, clinics also treat victims 
of anti-personnel landmines.

Only two weeks before a woman came to the clinic after 
stepping on a mine. She was very lucky. Only the 
triggering mechanism had exploded, not the entire 
mine, and she was able to use her leg again.

At Mae Hla Po Tha, I met Maw Keh, a middle-aged Karen 
man who himself wears a prosthesis. He had been a soldier 
in the ethnic Karen army battling Rangoon's forces in 
1986 when he received his wound. After being trained 
by Handicapped International in Thailand and working 
for them for ten years he left to start his own work 
across the border in places like Mae Hla Po Tha where 
large NGOs do not go.

He has set up an organization called the Karen Prosthesis 
Workshop, which is based in Karen-controlled territory. 
There are fifteen trained technicians, all land mine 
victims, who build and custom fit new arms and legs. 
The main materials used are leather and polyester 
resin though sometimes they make do with what's available. 
New feet are often fashioned from old automobile tires. 
The climate and working conditions of upland Burma means 
the average prosthesis must be replaced every few years.

The 4,000 IDPs at Mae Hla Po Tha are just the tip of the 
iceberg. Tens of thousands more are displaced elsewhere 
and must fend for themselves. Mine clearance, when possible, 
must be done locally. According to Maw Keh, villagers will, 
"normally use a rake. We put nails on a piece of wood at 
the end of a pole, at least three meters in length, and 
pull. If the rake end is 18 inches long it will typically 
have eighteen nails on it."

I didn't stay the night at Mae Hla Po Tha, which was just 
as well. After 9 PM there is an informal curfew when fires 
are not supposed to be lit. People had been instructed to 
have a few necessities ready in case they had to flee across 
the border. There was a rope which at one time had been 
slung across the river to make escape quicker. The Thais 
told them to take it down.

Still, as long as they can swim or have enough time to put 
up the rope and get across if trouble comes, the IDPs at 
Mae Hla Po Tha, have some temporary margin of safety. For 
their brothers and sisters hiding deeper inland it is much 
tougher. Until there is peace in Burma, political change, 
and the creation of a civil society, those IDPs have fewer 
and fewer places to run, and fewer places to hide.

Richard Humphries is a free-lance journalist living in Japan

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THE ASIAN AGE (India): FRESH CASES OF TB REPORTED IN BURMA

March 9, 2000

Rangoon: There are an estimated 100,000 new tuberculosis 
cases in Burma each year but the government is following 
World Health Organisation recommendations to decrease the 
threat, the New Light of Myanmar reported. About 75 per 
cent of those infected are people between 15 and 59 years 
old which is the most active working group, the minister 
for health, Major General Ket Sein, told the second 
national seminar on tuberculosis. (DPA)

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SHAN: VILLAGERS PAYING "OPIUM TAX" TO DEPARTING JUNTA COMMANDER

Shan Herald Agency for News
9 March 2000

No: 3 - 4

7 March 2000


Shan villagers in a northern township paid protection to a
Burmese commander before his return to unit, reported Mao Mao 
from northern Shan State.

According to Mao Mao, Maj. Nyein Aye, Commander, Company 1, 
LIB 323 in Mongkiet, Hsenwi Township, summoned a meeting of 
village and tract headmen on 19 February.

"He said he would be completing his tour soon and wanted all
the villages in Mongkiet's jurisdiction to collect opium tax 
for him with in 3 days."

Mao Mao provided the list of villages that paid "tax" 
as follows:

1 Napoong -1            K.      20,000
2 Wanlong               K.      10,000
3 Hokhai                K.        7,000
4 Wankarb               K.      10,000
5 Pianghsai             K.        7,000
6 Wankaolong            K.      40,000
7 Kunkieng              K.      30,000
8 Nayay                 K.      40,000
9 Namlinkharn           K.        5,000
10 Kungzong             K.      40,000
11 Piangkharn           K.      80,000
12 Holiangtai           K.      70,000
13 Longhsim             K.        4,000
14 Napoong-2            K.      50,000
15 Hueyheng             K.      20,000
16 Nawng-aw             K.      10,000
totalling               K.       443,000 in all.

"It is a custom here for the poppy growers to pay 
kickbacks to the local commanders," he added. "And 
the villagers are used to it."



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THE NATION: JUNTA SLAMS NATIONS INVOLVED IN FORUM 

JAPAN, South Korea and Asean have agreed on the need to 
continue engagement with Rangoon and help the Burmese 
junta in its human resource development and economic 
reform processes, an informed source said yesterday. 
The approach, which was freshly debated at a forum in 
Seoul over the weekend, is an attempt to breathe new life 
into the stalled political process in Burma. 

The Seoul meeting follows a retreat in Chilston, England, 
in 1998, which reportedly came up with a "carrot and 
stick" formula for diplomacy aimed at forcing the junta 
into making concessions. 

Soon after the talks, a western proposal was leaked 
through the media that involved western states, in 
conjunction with the World Bank, reportedly offering 
Rangoon a US$1 billion aid package in return for reforms. 
The approach was subsequently rejected by the ruling 
generals. 

"The Seoul meeting is being held in such an environment 
that every party involved is concerned about the future 
of Burma and is looking for a way to help encourage 
positive developments in the country," the source said. 
But Rangoon on Tuesday attacked the countries which took 
part in the Seoul meeting, saying the talks were a plot 
to exert further pressure on the country's rulers. 
"The Seoul meeting is nothing more than a scheme hatched 
by western countries to put pressure on Burma. It would 
surely not bring about positive results," said a 
statement from the Burmese Foreign Ministry. Rangoon was 
apparently also furious with fellow Asean members 
Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. 

But according to the source, no Asean country used the 
forum to attack Rangoon. "Instead, they see the need to 
help Burma with its human resources development 
programme," the source said. 

The talks, which ended on Monday, were shrouded in 
secrecy. They also involved representatives from Canada, 
Australia, Japan, Britain, France and the United Nations. 
According to the source, Japan and South Korea strongly 
advocated human resources development and economic reform 
in Burma as vital to the future of the country. Japan is 
considering increasing its humanitarian assistance to 
Burma, which has been scaled back since 1988 over 
political repression in the country. 

The source added that South Korean President Kim Dae Jung 
is personally attached to the issue of democratisation in 
Burma and feels the way to do so is through engagement 
since the country is part of East Asia. Asian and western 
nations alike have been frustrated in their respective 
attempts to bring about democracy and an improvement in 
human rights in Burma. 

Burma joined Asean in 1997 despite strong opposition from 
western nations, in a move which ended decades of 
political isolation. The issue of Burma has poisoned 
relations between the grouping and the European Union 
ever since. 

The United States, Europe and other nations maintain 
tight restrictions on investment and trade with Burma. 
The outcome of the two-day meeting in Seoul is unclear as 
officials involved remained tight-lipped, even about the 
purpose of the session. 

Secretary to Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan, Noppadol 
Patama, who led the Thai delegation to the talks, 
cancelled his scheduled press conference for fear it 
would antagonise the military dictatorship. 
However, according to the source, the forum wanted to see 
Rangoon have a political dialogue with opposition leader 
Aung San Suu Kyi. It also saw the need to increase 
humanitarian aid to the country, especially for people 
living along the Thai-Burmese border. 
The Nation (March 9, 2000)

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BANGKOK POST: THAILAND PUSHES SOFT TOUCH

Achara Ashayagacht 

Thailand and Japan, during the recent meeting on Burma in 
Seoul, South Korea, advocated continuing social and 
economic assistance to the country while European 
delegate insisted on political reform as a precondition.

Unlike the international meeting in Chilston, England in 
October 1999, which offered $1 billion to Rangoon in 
return for political reform, the gathering in Seoul came 
up with no collective initiative.

Participants simply compared notes during a session aimed 
at keeping up the momentum for change in Burma following 
the United Nations' resolution last October, officials 
said.

Noppadol Pattama, the foreign minister's secretary who 
headed the Thai delegation, said Thailand defended its 
positive approach to Burma as an immediate neighbour and 
partner in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Thailand also urged others to extend help to Burma in 
human resources development, health, and other basic 
needs.

Thailand also supported political dialogue between the 
government and the opposition but believed it should come 
through internal efforts rather than external pressure.

Delegates also felt that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan 
should appoint, as soon as possible, a new special envoy 
to Burma to replace Alvaro de Soto, who recently was 
appointed the UN's envoy to Cyprus.

Bangkok Post (March 9, 2000)



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BANGKOK POST: TROOPS KILL 5 WA DRUG SMUGGLERS

March 9, 2000



Border security troops shot dead five drug traffickers 
from the United Wa State Army in Chiang Mai on Tuesday 
morning.

They were killed in a brief clash with a task force of 
the Third Army near Ban Li-saw Hua-nam, a Lisue village 
in Mae Ai district, about 2km from the Thai-Burmese 
border.

Maj-Gen Somboonkiat Sithidecha, head of the Pha Muang 
task force, said security forces had been deployed near 
Ban Li-saw Hua-nam following reports that the UWSA, 
regarded as the largest drug trader in the Golden 
Triangle area, planned to use the village as a transit 
point.

The dead traffickers were among some 30 UWSA soldiers 
escorting a drug caravan, he said. Their bodies were 
found near the village. One 9mm pistol, an AK47 assault 
rifle and several Chinese-made hand grenades were also 
seized by the task force.

Ban Li-saw Hua-nam is about 3km from Ban San Ton Du, the 
border checkpoint closed since August to stem the inflow 
of illicit drugs and the export of general materials to 
the Wa.



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BANGKOK POST: BURMESE INTRUDERS ARRESTED
March 9, 2000





Mae Hong Son

Five Burmese soldiers have been arrested on suspicion of 
planning to sabotage Karen refugee camps, local 
authorities said yesterday.

Three were arrested by a security force of Karen refugees 
and volunteers yesterday morning while they were 
trespassing on a refugee camp in Ban Mae Kongkha in Mae 
Sarieng district, said district chief Saowalak 
Yimrungrueng.

Mr Saowalak also serves as director of the Ban Mae 
Kongkha refugee camp.

The three were identified as members of the 80th 
battalion and reportedly entered Thailand in Sop Moey 
district.

They denied the charges and said that they were defecting 
from the military, local authorities said.
The other two soldiers were arrested by border rangers 
near a checkpoint in Sop Moey district. They were 
identified as members of the Burmese army's 338th rapid 
deployment force.

All are now being detained at the 7th Infantry Regiment, 
authorities said.

The arrests followed a report that more than 30 Burmese 
troops were sent last month to Thailand to carry out 
sabotage in refugee camps in the province.
Bangkok Post (Bangkok Post)






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BURMANET: HARVARD'S KENNEDY SCHOOL ADOPTS BURMA SELECTIVE PURCHASING

March 9, 2000

On March 7, Harvard University's Kennedy School Student 
Government adopted a 'Free Burma Selective-Purchasing Policy'
whereby the student government will refuse to do business
with companies doing business in Burma.  While the budget
of the student government is fairly limited, the significance
of the move is that it is a harbinger of an effort to 
adopt a university wide selective purchasing policy
and to replicate the effort at enough universities
and community organizations to have an appreciable 
economic impact on companies operating on the United
States.

The measure adopted at the Kennedy School, like
one adopted earlier by Georgetown University's law
school government differs from Burma resolutions 
adopted at a number of universities in that it 
has real, albeit limited, economic teeth.  The 
move also reflects a reaction to efforts by the
US business community to have selective purchasing
polices adopted by states and cities declared 
unconstitutional.  A case challenging the Massachusetts
Burma law will be argued at the US Supreme Court on
March 25th.

Should the Supreme Court strike down the Burma law,
student activists hope to be able to string together
enough selective purchasing polices by universities
and community organizations to replicate the economic
disincentive to invest in Burma that state and city 
policies currently exert.  The Supreme Court's 
decision will only apply to local governments to
private universities, organizations and civic groups
will remain free to adopt Burma boycotts.

See below for the text of the KSSK Burma resolution.


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KYODO: MYANMAR TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO LAOS

Wed 8 Mar 2000 

BANGKOK, March 8 (Kyodo) -- Myanmar, one of the world's least 
developed countries, has vowed to provide an assistance on 
irrigation to Laos, its landlocked neighbor, according to 
Laotian National Radio monitored in Bangkok on Wednesday. 

The assistance to Laos was declared when Boungnang Vorachith, 
Laotian deputy prime minister, made a visit to Myanmar on 
March 6-8. He met several leaders of Myanmar's military junta, 
including Than Shwe, prime minister, and Khin Nyunt, secretary 
of the junta. 

Myanmar will send experts to help construct irrigation systems 
in the Laotian border-province Bokeo, but no time frame was 
mentioned. 

In a meeting between Boungnang and Khin Nyunt, leaders of the 
two countries also agreed to strengthen cooperation on 
transportation, border trade and narcotic suppression, the radio 
said.  The two countries have no conflicts and would help each 
other in development to overcome economic difficulties, the 
radio quoted the Myanmar leader as saying. 




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BURMANET: NPR RADIO TO AIR IN DEPTH PIECE ON UNOCAL PIPELINE FRIDAY

National Public Radio (US) will air an in depth piece on Unocal 
and the Yadana natural gas pipeline in Burma on Friday evening's
news program, "All Things Considered."  The piece, reported
by Daniel Zwerdling, will air Friday March 10th between 
4:30-5:00pm EST.  

The piece will be available to listeners outside the US
on NPR's website in RealAudio format.  Look for it to be 
up sometime Saturday.  BurmaNet will carry a link to
the piece in the Sunday Weekend Edition.

Related links:

www.npr.org
www.americanradioworks.org

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TEXT OF KENNEDY SCHOOL STUDENT GOVERNMENT FREE BURMA RESOLUTION 

Proposed By: Ricken Patel and Fu-Shoun Mao 
 
This Student Government Notes: 
1)      That the Burmese military dictatorship is one of 
the world's most repressive governments, and since 1990 has 
engaged in torture, forcible relocation, forced labour and 
slavery. 
2)      That the miltary dictatorship has ignored the 1990 
landslide victory of the pro-democracy candidates, and has 
killed, imprisoned or exiled many of those elected.  
3)      That the rightful government of Burma, including 
exiled Prime Minister Sein Win and Aung San Suu Kyi have 
called for sanctions to be imposed by the international 
community upon the country.  
 
This Student government further notes: 
1)      That the ILO and the USDL have reported the use of 
slave labour in Burma on foreign-backed projects.  
2)      That Burmese universities have been closed for 7 
of the last ten years, and that over 3000 students were 
massacred in 1988 in a pro-democracy protest.  
 
This Student Government Believes: 
 
1)      That neither the KSSG nor the Kennedy School nor 
Harvard University should demonstrate any complicity with 
the Burmese regime.  
2)      That Students should be aware of how their tuition 
dollars may be supporting the Burmese regime. 
3)      That the KSSG, KSG and Harvard University should 
show support for the Burmese democratic opposition.  
 
Therefore, This Student Government Resolves: 
 
Section 1 
 
1)      To call upon the Governing Board of the KSG and 
Harvard University to require any corporations that provide 
goods or services to the university to disclose ties with 
Burma.  
2)      To use the Investor Responsibility Research 
Center's report on Burma to determine which companies do 
business in Burma.  
 
Section 2 
 
1)      To call upon Harvard University to remove funds 
from any bank or financial institution which has any 
outstanding loans to Burma or any entity organized under the 
laws of Burma. 
 
 
Section 3 
 
1)      To call upon Harvard University to disinvest in 
any companies or financial institutions listed in the IRRC's 
report.   
2)      Notwithstanding the above resolution, to 
understand that liquidation of investments may need to be 
spread over a period of up to three years.  
3)      To call upon Harvard University to vote in favour 
of shareholder resolutions which support the Free Burma 
campaign.  
 
Section 4 
 
1)      The KSSG shall not wherever possible purchase 
goods and services from companies which do business with 
Burma, and calls upon the KSG and Harvard University to 
resolve the same.  
 
Section 5 
 
1)      To educate the student body about the situation in 
Burma, by requesting that the library purchase a copy of the 
IRRC report on Burma, and by directing the KSSG executive 
committee to support student groups involved in the Free 
Burma campaign.  
2)      To direct the President to write to the US 
Secretary of State, the Speaker of the House, and the 
Majority Leader of the US Senate informing them of the 
passage of this resolution and its content. 

For more information on the KSG policy, contact:
 
Ricken Patel 
Patelri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
617-493-6549 
 
Fu-Shoun Mao 
MaoFuSh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 


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