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Letter to Sen.Mitch McConnell



                  Democratic Burmese Students Organization (USA)
                              P.O.Box 91, Rockville, MD 20851
                                     Phone/Fax. (301)984-6271


The Honorable Senator Mitch McConnell
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510

July 7, 1995

Dear Senator McConnell:

I write this letter on behalf of the Democratic Burmese Students
Organization. We are students in exile from Burma who were witnesses to the
1988 massacre of peaceful demonstrators by the Burmese regime. We, the
Burmese students, are now living throughout the United States. We are writing
in support of your efforts to fraft legislation imposing economic and trade
measures against the military regime in Burma.

In view of the lack of freedom and democracy and the persistent refusal on
the part of the current SLORC regime to honor the national mandate given in
1990 elections, we commend any measures that the U.S. Congress takes to help
the emergence of a legitimate government, which is democratic and responsive
to the basic needs of its people.

We believe that your proposed legislation will set a progressive direction
for U.S. policy that promotes democracy in Burma. It will also send a clear
signal to the SLORC that the U.S. insists on commitment for the immediate
release of all political prisoners including democratic leader Daw Augn San
Suu Kyi and the implementation of the full democratic process. We believe
that renewed action by the U.S. Congress to increase pressure on Burma will
bear critical influence on the SLORC. We shall, therefore, support any of
your measures to this effect.

Sincerely yours,


(Signed)
Shwe Sin Htun 
Representative
DBSO (East Coast)