Arabs and Burma (r)

[simon_billenness@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

>From: Gijs Hillenius <gijsh@xxxxxxxxx>
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>At 12:51 14-03-96, simon_billenness@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>If it comforts you, I do not believe that any Arab government or company has
>>ever lifted a finger for the Burmese people. However, I would be happy to be
>>proved wrong on this point.
>
>I can correct you, maybe, in a little way. Through a very close source in
>Saudi Arabia (ie my parents) I received quite a number of articles from the
>Arab News on Burma. They write more on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi than do the
>Dutch Newspapers (except for the last couple of months, with all this
>Heineken stuff going on). The Arab News even provided us with usefull info
>on such an 'unheard of' place like Arakhan state..
>Gijs (from his home e-mail)
>visit these sights:
>http://sunsite.unc.edu/freeburma/freeburma.html
>http://www.uio.no/tormodl
>http://danet.wicip.org/fbc/freeburma.html
>

I am glad to stand corrected on this point. 

Simon Billenness