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BurmaNet News: October 18, 2001
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October 18, 2001 Issue # 1901
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INSIDE BURMA _______
*AFP: UN rights envoy admitted to hospital before cutting short Myanmar
trip
*National Public Radio: Alan Rabinowitz and his journey into the
mountains of Myanmar *Shan Herald Agency for News: Cis-Salween area
being 'urbanized'
*DVB: Ethnic groups meet UN special envoy, claim lack of political
freedom
MONEY _______
*Chronicle of Higher Education: U. of Virginia Sells Stock in Company
Criticized Over Ties to Myanmar
GUNS______
*DVB: Four Thai border police wounded in attack on outpost by "unknown
group"
Arakan News Agency : Na Sa Ka (Border Security Force) Camps Put On High
Alert in *Arakan
DRUGS______
*Xinhua: Border guards seize 19 kilograms of 'ice'
REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL _______
*Mizzima: Birthday celebration for imprisoned Burma student leader
planned
OTHER______
*PD Burma: Calendar of events
__________________ INSIDE BURMA ____________________
AFP: UN rights envoy admitted to hospital before cutting short Myanmar
trip
YANGON, Oct 18 (AFP) - United Nations human rights envoy Paulo Sergio
Pinheiro was admitted to hospital in the northern city of Mandalay
before cutting short his mission to Myanmar, a government source said
Thursday.
Pinheiro departed Yangon Wednesday after a meeting with democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her top lieutenants, which was hastily
arranged after he was taken ill on an upcountry tour and forced to cut
three days from his trip.
UN officials said Pinheiro, who is aged in his late 50s, was suffering
from a pre-existing condition that had flared up during the tour, and
that his doctor had recommended he travel back to Brazil for treatment.
"He was not in pain but it was difficult for him to move on and travel
around," a UN spokeswoman said, while declining to identify his
condition.
A government source who helped organise the envoy's second trip to
Myanmar said Pinheiro spent two days in hospital after completing a tour
of northern Shan state Monday. The UN spokeswoman said the stay was
shorter.
He was forced to cancel a trip to Kachin state to meet with the Kachin
Independence Organisation, the political wing of the Kachin Independence
Army, which is one of the ethnic militias to have signed a ceasefire
agreement with the government. A visit to the ancient city of Bagan was
also canceled.
The UN spokeswoman said that before he flew out of Yangon, Pinheiro
managed to attend the crucial meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi and top
members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) which lasted for
nearly two hours.
She said she hoped the meeting would go some way to defusing complaints
from NLD secretary U Lwin that the envoy had spent too much time with
junta leaders and had neglected the pro-democracy groups.
"This was a very important meeting so that was one effort he was really
concerned to make... From what I understand it went well."
"I hope that all the misunderstandings were clarified," she said,
adding that scheduling problems had prevented Pinheiro from seeing the
NLD leadership until Wednesday just hours before his departure.
The UN said in a statement issued in Geneva that Pinheiro and his team
had been to prisons in Mandalay and Lashio as well as a "labour camp" at
Hton-Bo last Saturday and Sunday before he was forced to cut short his
visit.
It added that Pinheiro "hoped to be able to return to Myanmar as soon
as his health permits to pursue his fact-finding mission and efforts to
develop partnership with all interested parties towards improving the
human rights situation in the country."
U Lwin told BBC's Burmese-language service earlier this week that he
was "displeased" with the trip. "I heard he has no plan to visit local
prisons and to call on political prisoners, which is very strange," he
said.
"Especially on this trip Pinheiro has spent a lot of time with senior
military officials... and on his previous visit he called on NLD
officials for only 30 minutes," he added. "I do not expect too much from
his visit."
Shan NLD spokesman Khun Tun Oo said his meeting with Pinheiro Friday,
along with other ethnic pro-democracy groups, had helped ease concerns
that the envoy was not addressing their problems.
His first report released after an inaugural five-day trip to Myanmar
in April "did not represent the true situation of ethnic minority
political parties," he said. "It was based on what the ceasefire groups
had told him."
But he said Pinheiro had promised to incorporate their views into his
next report.
"We were all very satisfied that we could meet with this man, spend
over one and a half hours with him, and explain our feelings," he told
AFP.
Pinheiro, the first UN human rights envoy to travel here in five years,
has established a good working relationship with the junta, which
released five top political prisoners to mark his arrival on October 9.
In the second release to coincide with the visit, on Saturday it also
freed a young dissident named Chan Myay Win, who had been sentenced to
21 years in jail, an official source said.
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National Public Radio: Alan Rabinowitz and his journey into the
mountains of Myanmar
Morning Edition (10:00 AM ET) - NPR
October 17, 2001 Wednesday
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards.
People think there's not much new left to find in the world; that the
age of exploration is over. But there are explorers today, and they're
making new discoveries all the time. Here's NPR's Alex Chadwick with one
very recent example.
ALEX CHADWICK reporting:
There probably are born explorers. Alan Rabinowitz is not one of them.
He is today the director of science and exploration for the Wildlife
Conservation Society that's based at the Bronx Zoo in New York, but
still it is an unlikely place for a city kid like him to wind up
working. Dr. ALAN RABINOWITZ (Wildlife Conservation Society): I was 16
or 17 when I first took a field trip and went, actually, into the
forest. And my first feeling wasn't one of joy, it was one of total
fear, because I grew up in New York, where having a lot of dark places
where people could hide was not a good thing.
CHADWICK: He went on to many dark forests. He's written earlier about
his adventures in Central America. A decade ago he began to think about
a huge, wild region in upper Southeast Asia, where Burma and China and
Tibet all come together. No one welcomes strangers there, especially not
the Burmese, who are so maniacally secretive they actually changed the
country's name to Myanmar. But Alan Rabinowitz persuaded them to
authorize an expedition that led to his new book, "Beyond the Last
Village."
Dr. RABINOWITZ: Myanmar, being such a long country, ranging from rain
forests in the far south to the Himalayas in the far north, had an
incredible range of habitats and, thus, an incredible diversity of birds
and mammals and insects. We knew that already from past accounts. What
we didn't know, we didn't know what was really left in those forests.
CHADWICK: You wind up in this village, Putao, up in the north, which is,
I would think, for most of us, about as remote a place as you could ever
imagine getting to.
Dr. RABINOWITZ: Yes. It was considered the last civilized place,
although many people would consider it far from being civilized. And
beyond that point, there were no roads; nobody even knew what trails
there were, if any. It was just rugged mountains until the Tibetan
border. From Putao to get to where we wanted to go, which was where we
thought the last village would be, was about 250 miles. So we had to
carry enough food for about a 500-mile round trip walk.
(Soundbite of people conversing in foreign language)
CHADWICK: These are villagers that Dr. Rabinowitz recorded for his video
diary.
(Soundbite of people conversing in foreign language)
CHADWICK: With Burmese foresters, he was going to an area so little
known, so little exploited, they hoped they'd find animals and
ecosystems that are perishing elsewhere. They saw people along the way
who'd almost never known outsiders; places that didn't use money. People
bartered for goods, and the medium of exchange was salt.
(Soundbite of digging)
Dr. RABINOWITZ: People were killing wildlife for salt. People grew what
they could to eat, but they needed salt. They were living as they had
for generations upon generations. They used crossbows and poisoned
arrows, which they would make themselves. They would make the crossbows
from a hardwood and they would use arrows of bamboo, and they would
obtain a poison from a certain plant. But most of the tribes didn't
really want to hunt that much because it was very difficult up there.
But they needed to kill wildlife in order to trade for salt.
(Soundbite of people conversing in foreign language)
CHADWICK: There were animals, even a primitive species of deer
previously unknown to science. Dr. Rabinowitz and his Burmese colleagues
developed a conservation plan for large refuges and promised they'd
supply the salt that local people had gotten from Chinese traders for
rare skins and pelts collected by village hunters.
Dr. RABINOWITZ: I didn't ask them to stop, because some of the hunting
was needed for protein, for meat for themselves, and some of it they
just liked to do. I just said, 'Replace the amount of hunting you're
doing in order to trade for salt and I will trade that same amount of
salt and more with medicine and maybe better agricultural techniques and
tools.' And they said, 'We could do that. We could do that easily, and
we'd be happy to do that because it would be better for us.' It's not
always an easy thing to try to make a tradeoff between what local people
need and want and what it takes to have the wildlife survive. But in
this case, it was easy. It was very simple, it was inexpensive and it
was straightforward.
(Soundbite of water)
Dr. RABINOWITZ: (From video diary) Well, it's January 24th. We stayed
here trying to get more pictures, more documentation of the way of life
here and wrap up what needs to be done here.
CHADWICK: It worked. The parks are there today, and the conservation
strategy seems to be effective. But there's another story, too, in
"Beyond the Last Village."
Dr. RABINOWITZ: But the time I had reached the last village
scientifically, biologically, I knew that I had accomplished more than
I'd ever hoped for. And yet I felt that I was actually on the verge of
finding something which I sought much more than even scientific
discoveries.
CHADWICK: And what is that? What do you find in that village?
Dr. RABINOWITZ: I grew up a very bad stuttering child who--the only
things I could speak to from my earliest recollection in childhood and
not stutter terribly, incomprehensibly, was animals, which is a common
thing among stutterers. And I grew up in a time when stuttering was not
very well-understood. They didn't know what to do with me, even in
school. So I grew up my entire life feeling this deep, deep affinity
towards animals and feeling like they themselves had no voice. I felt
that same way. I felt like things inside of me were broken into little
pieces.
CHADWICK: That's partly what made him an explorer, he said. He wanted to
go to places so remote that he might finally find himself and then,
perhaps, connections with others.
Dr. RABINOWITZ: This was the most remote I personally had ever gotten,
and for the first time ever I felt as if I might get some of the answers
I was seeking here, which I did. It didn't come right away. It came
through a small fatherless child who ended up taking me on as his
adopted father. It came through a mother who ended up giving up her baby
so that the baby would live and asked if we would take it back with us.
It came through a Buddhist monk who was up there in the last village
with us. Those answers had never come before. Deep inside me, there was
a bunch of jumbled-up, broken pieces which just had never come together.
And they finally did come together in that last village.
(Soundbite of people singing in foreign language)
CHADWICK: Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, director of science and exploration at
the Bronx Zoo's Wildlife Conservation Society. His new book is called
"Beyond the Last Village."
In Washington, this is Alex Chadwick, NPR News.
(Soundbite of people singing in foreign language)
EDWARDS: You can hear more of the interview with Rabinowitz and read an
excerpt from his book on the Web site npr.org.
It's 11 minutes before the hour.
___________________________________________________
Shan Herald Agency for News: Cis-Salween area being 'urbanized'
18 October 2001
A Shan rural area west of the Salween has been crowded with military
units, loggers, construction workers and local forced laborers involved
in the 5 year urbanization project since March, reported a source who
recently returned from Shan State.
Sai Raza, a Shan environmentalist working with Thailand-based Salween
Watch, said Kengtawng, the scene of more than a hundred villages being
forcibly relocated in a massive scorched earth campaign in 1997, was
swarming once again with thousands of people who were allowed to return
on condition that they would assist the Army's activities and hundreds
of outsiders who were there to "make fast money".
Kengtawng, with its administrative seat in Tonhoong, is located inside 5
townships: Namzang, Kunhing, Mongpan, Langkher and Mongnai. It is in
the flood area of the Salween dam project, the feasibility study of
which was completed only late last year.
Sai Raza said he saw a Bailey bridge, 360 ft long and 14 ft wide, being
constructed by the Hong Pang Company, the Wa's main business firm. "I
saw villagers cutting maipao (Shorea robusta) to supply beams for the
bridge," he said.
The area's teak and maipao forests were also being felled by loggers
from Asia World, former druglord Law Hsinghan's company.
He also heard from Burmese soldiers that more than 3,000 families from
Burmese lowlands would be brought up to resettle there. However, he was
unable to obtain confirmation for this piece of news.
One fringe result of the 'urbanization project' would be that units from
the Shan State Army of Yawdserk might have to make a long detour of the
area during their movements between central and southern Shan State, he
remarked.
According to Salween Watch, Japan's Electric Power Development
Corporation, has been bidding for a contract to carry out the final
studies for the dam. The dam site is located between Mongpan in the
west and Mongton in the east of the Salween.
For related information, visit http://www.shanland.org
# Relocated people return home to build fortifications (16 August 2001)
# A new hydro-electricity plant to be built near the Salween (19 August
2001) # 7 villagers killed for complaining about forced labor (Shan
Human Rights Foundation, September report)
__________________________________________________
DVB: Ethnic groups meet UN special envoy, claim lack of political
freedom
Text of report by Democratic Voice of Burma on 13 October
[Ko Moe Aye] We heard that Mr Pinheiro met with five nationality groups
including yours. Could
you tell us about that meeting?
[U Khun Tun Oo] Frankly speaking, it is quite demoralizing. Nothing has
improved. His report was a little optimistic because he did not get his
facts right. The nationality parties such as the Arakan, Mon, Chin, and
Karen were unable to engage in party activities and he had to be told.
We told him that we wanted to participate in party activities in a
similar manner to the NLD [National League for Democracy].
[Ko Moe Aye] What did Mr Pinheiro tell the five nationality parties?
[U Khun Tun Oo] Well, he understood the five parties were unable to do
any party activities so he told us why we did not pursue further. We
told him we were unable to contact the township, district, state, and
division authorities. He did not seem to know the facts.
[Ko Moe Aye] In his report he said that the human rights situation has
improved. He wrote it in a positive light.
[U Khun Tun Oo] He said something like cautious optimism. He even asked
where is the optimism? We gave him a diplomatic reply but in real terms
the situation is not favourable.
[Ko Moe Aye] What was his impression after meeting with you and the
nationalities?
[U Khun Tun Oo] Well, he will have to rewrite his report. He will have
to write that the nationality parties have no freedom of movement to do
any political activity.
[Ko Moe Aye] Did you discuss other things?
[U Khun Tun Oo] He asked whether there were any arrests and I frankly
said no since the climate has improved regarding the political process
[preceding two words in English] and that there have been no arrests. He
inquired whether there was any detention recently and I simply replied
no. He asked why and I said it might be because of the good political
climate.
[Ko Moe Aye] In yesterday's news he also met with the USDA [Union
Solidarity and Development Association] group. Did he tell you anything
about that?
[U Khun Tun Oo] Well, he met with one Kayah group, two Karen groups, and
one Mon group. The two Karen groups could be Phado Aung San's and Saw
Thamu He's groups. He said he met with the cease-fire groups. He also
said he met with S-1 [SPDC Secretary-1 Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt] as well.
[Ko Moe Aye] Did he give a rough explanation about his meeting with S-1?
[U Khun Tun Oo] No, he did not. He just informed us about his meeting.
[Ko Moe Aye] Can you tell us how long you were able to talk with Mr
Pinheiro? Whether you were able to present your views fully and how much
time was allocated?
[U Khun Tun Oo] He talked with us for about one and half hours. We all
tackled him with questions. He even asked whether Mr Razali knows about
all this and we said yes, we told him so. We explained to him the
difficulties of ethnic people, even to travel to the districts. We also
told him about the lack of political activity, freedom of association,
freedom of organization, and freedom of assembly and gathering. We said
these should be allowed because once the political process changes, we
want to be ready. We had to explain it to him. He thought we had already
started the dialogue process. He said that only the NLD is active then
and we told him that NLD and USDA are engaging in the activities. The
Shan party, being a legitimate party, was active for a while. There
wasn't much pressure though. It was worse for the other groups. The UNLD
[United Nationalities League for Democracy] won over 40 seats, including
those from the Mon, Arakan, and Chin groups.
[Ko Moe Aye] I believe Mr Pinheiro has asked permission to visit the
jails.
[U Khun Tun Oo] Yes, he has and I think he will visit Insein Central
Jail.
[Ko Moe Aye] What is your opinion of his itinerary and what you
discussed?
[U Khun Tun Oo] Since he is staying a little longer than the last time
and if his visit is more thorough, then I think he will be able to know
50 per cent of the actual news. It will be different from his first
visit because I have read his report.
Source: Democratic Voice of Burma, Oslo, in Burmese 1430 gmt 13 Oct 01
______________________MONEY________________________
Chronicle of Higher Education: U. of Virginia Sells Stock in Company
Criticized Over Ties to Myanmar
By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK
University of Virginia students who have been campaigning for the
institution to sell its
stock in Unocal because of the oil company's ties to the military
regime in Myanmar claimed victory this week after learning that the
institution had sold its 50,000 shares.
The students said they hope the sale is the first step in a broader
university policy on ethical investing. University officials,
however, said the decision to sell was made for financial reasons,
based on a stock manager's "assessment of Unocal's prospects"
and not because of the student pressure.
Alice Handy, the university treasurer, said she notified student
leaders late last week that
the stock had been sold because they were scheduled to meet with
members of the Board of Visitors this Friday to discuss the Unocal
situation, and she wanted the students to be aware of the latest
development.
But she also said the decision to sell the shares -- worth about
$1.5-million -- had not come from the board or university officials,
and did not reflect any change in university policy. "It's a stock that
he had traded in and out of for 12 years," Ms. Handy said of the stock
manager, adding that there was nothing to keep him from adding it back
into UVa's
$1.7-billion portfolio at any time.
Nonetheless, students said the decision was a victory for their
nine-month campaign, albeit a "conditional victory," in the words of
Andrew Price, a fourth-year student who heads the Free Burma Coalition
at Virginia. Myanmar is formerly known as Burma. "I don't know why that
stock was sold, but the endowment [now] much better reflects the
values of the University of Virginia" he said.
The university had been urged to divest of the Unocal stock by the
coalition, by the Student Council, and by seven Nobel Peace Prize
winners.
Mr. Price said he doubted that the sale of the stock was a
coincidence. He said he also realized that there was nothing to keep
the university from buying back that stock, or stock of other companies
still doing business in Myanmar: "We need to try to get the Board of
Visitors to say that we won't."
Students who still plan to meet with the Board of Visitors on Friday
said they are hoping that the university will establish a policy on
ethical investing, overseen by a committee of students, faculty
members, and university administrators. Along with a ban on owning
stock in companies that do business in Myanmar, the students say the
university should only own stock in companies that provide workers
with a living wage.
Nationally, the Free Burma Coalition, based in Washington, is
pursuing divestment efforts at the University of Michigan and with
TIAA-CREF, a giant pension fund with many academic participants.
_______________________GUNS________________________
DVB: Four Thai border police wounded in attack on outpost by "unknown
group"
Text of report by Democratic Voice of Burma on 17 October
An unknown armed group from the Burmese side fired at a Thai Border
Patrol Police [BPP] unit near the Thai-Burma border in Mae Hong Song
Province this morning [17 October]. Mae Hong Song provincial officials
have also confirmed about the incident. DVB correspondent Maung Too
filed this report about the border incident from somewhere near the
Thai-Burma border.
[Maung Too] An unknown armed group based in Shan State attacked a Thai
BPP outpost near Ho Nang Village in Bhama Phat District, Mae Hong Song
Province in Thailand at about 0600 [local time] on 17 October. Mae Hong
Song provincial authorities said four members of the Thai BPP were
wounded in the attack. But the Thai BPP said the unknown armed group
that crossed over to Thailand from the Burmese side could be the Wa
armed group [United Wa State Army] or the SPDC soldiers who had lost
their way and wandered into Thai territory. Furthermore, some thought
the group could be drug traffickers because the location where the
incident occurred happened to be on the drug trafficking route. Both
sides have agreed that this is a time when high-level Thai and Burmese
officials have been promoting bilateral goodwill and economic
cooperation between the two nations. Observers believed that such border
incidents could create some obstacles to the slightly improving
bilateral relations.
Source: Democratic Voice of Burma, Oslo, in Burmese 1430 gmt 17 Oct 01
___________________________________________________
Arakan News Agency : Na Sa Ka (Border Security Force) Camps Put On High
Alert in Arakan
By our Special Correspondent
Maungdaw, October 17: Since the visit of a delegation of high ranking
military officials to northern areas of Burmese occupied Arakan on
October 12, all Na Sa Ka camps situated along
Burma-Bangladesh border area have been put on full alert.
The delegation comprising, among others, Gen. Myint Zaw of Military
Intelligence Headquarters, Rangoon and Lt. Col. Aung Ngwe, Head of Na Sa
Ka forces based in Na Sa Ka Headquarters at Kyigan Byin, Maungdaw
visited various Na Sa Ka camps such as Kyin Chaung (Bawlibazar), Thet
Kine Nya, Mingla Nyunt, Min Khamaung and Aung Zu all located north of
Maungdaw township.
The delegation inspected the existing position of the camps regarding
defense preparedness and discipline among the troops. They also
discussed with the commanders of various camps and instructed them to
put them on full alert. Following the visit of the officials the local
authorities put a number of restrictions on the local people regarding
their movement and other formalities. Although curfew was not imposed
officially no one is allowed to move at night. The authorities further
warned that anyone found sheltering any unreported guest, shall be
severely punished More check points are erected and all passersby are
searched.
Abdur Rashid
Chief Reporter
Arakan News Agency
________________________DRUGS______________________
Xinhua: Border guards seize 19 kilograms of 'ice'
KUNMING, October 18 (Xinhua) -- Border guards in southwest China's
Yunnan Province confiscated 19.12 kilograms of the drug " ice" early
Wednesday morning, according to local official sources. Frontier police
stationed in Lincang County found two bags of refined "ice," the street
name for methamphetamine hydrochloride, which were dropped by two
suspects after a fierce gunfight. The suspected traffickers fled
overseas, the police said. Yunnan, neighboring the notorious "Golden
Triangle" area, has been used as a major passage for drug trafficking by
international drug dealers.
The Yunnan Frontier Defense Bureau has uncovered 67 drug cases in the
first half of the year, involving 25 kilograms of heroin, which the
traffickers hid in their body cavities. The Chinese government has been
taking an active part in international cooperation on controlling
narcotics and seen measurable success. Sources from the China National
Narcotics Control Commission ( NNCC) said that in the first half of this
year, China had stepped up its anti-drug cooperation with Laos, Myanmar
and other countries.
___________________ REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL___________________
Mizzima: Birthday celebration for imprisoned Burma student leader
planned
(www.mizzima.com)
Washington, Oct. 17: The birthday of Burma's imprisoned student leader
Min Ko Naing is being celebrated tomorrow in the Capitol offices of US
congressmen Lane Evans and Tom Lantos. October 18th marks the student
leader's 12th consecutive birthday behind bars.
Min Ko Naing, a prominent student leader who led the 1988 nationwide
uprising in Burma was arrested in March 1989 by the military regime and
sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for his anti-government activities.
Although his sentence was later reduced to 10 years under general
amnesty, he remains in jail. He has been held in solitary confinement
for most of his imprisonment, which resulted in poor physical and mental
health.
In a rare meeting with the then Congressman Bill Richardson in Sittwe
Jail in Rakhine State in 1994, he reportedly refused amnesty in return
for exile in the US.
The date of celebration is honored by the Capitol celebration (convened
by the Washington-based Free Burma Coalition) and a candle light vigil
tonight in front of the residence of Burmese ambassador in Washington.
United Nations Human Rights envoy Paulo Sergio Pinheiro who is currently
on a fact-finding mission in Burma has specifically called on the
Burmese authorities to effect Min Ko Naing?s release.
Amnesty International recognizes Min Ko Naing as a prisoner of
conscience and had appealed the Burmese government for his immediate and
unconditional release.
______________________OTHER______________________
PD Burma: Calendar of events
a.. September : 56th UN General Assembly. For more information:
www.un.org/ga/56
b.. October 18th : The birthday of Burma's imprisoned student leader
Min Ko Naing. Celebration in the Capitol offices of US congressmen Lane
Evans and Tom Lantos, Washington
c.. October 27-29th : the Fifth Annual Working Conference of the Free
Burma Coalition, American University in Washington, DC. For more
information: http://www.freeburmacoalition.or
d.. December 1st : Worlds Aids Day
e.. December 8th : World wide celebration for the Nobel Peace Prize
for Aung San Suu Kyi www.burmapeacecampaign.org
f.. January 14th 2002 : 26th Session of CEDAW, New York. For more
info: www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/committ
g.. February 2002 : The fourth Bangladesh, India, Burma, Sri Lanka and
Thailand-Economic Cooperation (BIMST- EC) meeting, Colombo
h.. February 12th 2002 : National Union Day in Burma (Official)
i.. March 4-15th 2002 : 46th Session of CSW, New York, :
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw
j.. March 8th 2002 : International Women Day
k.. March 13th 2002 : Burma Human Rights Day (Unofficial)
l.. March 17-23rd 2002 : 107th Conference of the IPU, Morocco
m.. March/April 2002 : Commission on Human Rights, Geneva
n.. March 27th 2002 : Resistance Day in Burma
o.. May 27th 2002 : Anniversary of the 1990 election
p.. June 19th 2002 : Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday and Burmese Women's
Day
q.. July 2002 : ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM)
r.. July 2002 : ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)
s.. August 8th 2002 : Anniversary of the 8-8-88 uprising
t.. September 18th 2002 : Anniversary of SLORC Coup, 1988
u.. September 2002 : United Nations, General Assembly, New York
v.. October 2002 : Inter-Parliamentary Conference
w.. December 10th 2002 : World Human Rights Day
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