BURMESE STUDENT IN SDC STAGEING HUN

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Subject: BURMESE STUDENT IN SDC STAGEING HUNGER STRIKE

Burmese Students in Special Detention Center (Bangkok, Thailand)
staging hunger strike

					July 9, 1996, Bangkok, Thailand

Burmese students detained in the special Detention center
are staging hunger strike, according to sources close to Burmese
Students Association (Safe Area, Thailand). Over twenty Burmese
students have been detained in the special Detention center
without trial for their activities against SLORC. Seven of them
have been in SDC for over two years and the rest of the students
were arrested after taking part in the demonstration in front of
the Burmese embassy in Bangkok on May 27, 1996 to commemorate the
6th anniversary of election held in Burma. 

Students staging hunger strike request Thai authorities:

- to allow students to have visitors 
- to release students back to the safe area as soon as possible.

BSA expresses it's concern regarding the welfare of detained
students and requests the international community to pressure
Thai government for the release of the students.