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BURMA FOCUS / This item is <abridged>.
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.seasia-l
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1992 06:15:38 PDT
Sender: Southeast Asia Discussion List {SEASIA-L@MSU.BITNETg
From: "Indonesia Publications/Task Force" {apakabar@IGC.APC.ORGg
Subject: BU: Burma Focus, August 1992
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/* Written 6:50 pm Aug 8, 1992 by pns:absdf in cdp:reg.seasia */
/* ---------- "Burma Focus, Vol.2.No.5, August 19" ---------- */
****************************************************************
* The Burma Focus *
* Published by the *
* All Burma Students' Democratic Front(ABSDF) *
* (bi-monthly newsletter) *
****************************************************************
Vol.2 No.5 August 1992
================================================================
Set Her Free
Free Aung San Suu Kyi = Free Burma
Asia Week, July 31, 1992 - Nobody ever accused Burma's military
rulers of being efficient at anything, except possibly repression.
when they took over in a 1988 coup, they promised to transfer the
power to a civilian government as quickly as possible. Four years
on, they are still mounting that promise. The junta, otherwise
known by its acronym SLORC, did hold a relatively free election in
May 1990. But when the National League for Democracy, headed by
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, won some 80% of the seats in a new National
Assembly, the men with the guns banned parliament from assembling
and arrested many of the new MPs. Their leader, whose courageous
defiance of the generals won her a Nobel Peace Prize, was put under
house arrest. Now, under increasing pressure from abroad to move
on reforms, SLORC has finally said that it will hold a national
convention to draw up a new constitution. An organization
committee, which included some tamed representatives of minority
groups and shell-shocked members of the democratic opposition, held
its first meeting under military tutela on June 23. Don't expect
much from it.
The atmosphere in Rangoon does not exactly land itself to a free
exchange of ideas. Consider: there is no freedom of speech, press
or assembly. Oppressive martial-law decrees remain in force. The
universities are closed. Hundreds of politicians and dissidents
are still behind bars. Worst of all, the person who should have a
prominent place at the negotiating table, the only person who might
be able to unite the country, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, is still under
house arrest.
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The Burma Focus is published by the All Burma Students' Democratic
Front(ABSDF). It will continue to publish bi-monthly, documenting
the information mainly on human rights violations, ecological
crisis, foreign investments, refugees problems and opium trading in
Burma. Anyone who wish to obtain information are welcome to
contact its offices: Head office(P.O Box 1352, G.P.O, Bangkok
10500, Thailand, Tel & Fax:66-2-318 8507, Europe Office,
Vaxlarevagen 67, S-171 65 Solna, Sweden, Tel & Fax;46-8-624 36 26,
E-mail:absdf@pns.apc.org and Norway Office, Sars gate 50, 0566
Oslo, Norway, Tel:47-2-35 71 52.)