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Uncle Leo's family said......



			
			Family of Mr Leo Nichols
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	Nichols, a friend of opposition leader Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, is 
 reported to have suffered a cerebral haemorrhage in his cell on Saturday. 
 He was buried on Sunday, but his family, who live in Perth in Australia, 
 said they had not been officially informed.

	Nichols's son James told THE AUSTRALIAN the circumstances of his 
 father's death and burial "make us wonder about the cause of death".

 [Reuters, AFP, 27 June 1996].

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	Mr Nichols' son, Mr Bill Nichols, a lecturer at WA's Curtin 
 University, said he had been told that his father died in Rangoon General 
 Hospital at 11am on 22 June after being transferred from the Insein 
 prison hospital an hour earlier. 

	Mr Nichols said that although he believed his father had been 
 jailed on fabricated charges, his association with Ms Suu Kyi was not 
 necessarily the reason for his persecution.

	He said his father had also clashed with Burma's military junta, 
 the State Law and Order Restoration Council, over the council acquisition 
 of land that had been part of a dead relative's estate.

	In Perth in Australia today, Mr Nichols' family joined the Swiss, 
 Norwegian and Danish Governments and Amnesty International in calling for 
 an independent inquiry into his death.

 [ Reuter, AAP, 27 June 1996].

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