Burma Lecture

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Outreach Council, First United Methodist Church
14th & Spruce Streets, Boulder, Colorado


                           Presents

                Burma's Struggle for Democracy:
                      Why Should We Care? 

                   An Illustrated Lecture By

                           U Kyaw Win

                     Thursday, 22 August 1996
               in the Church's Mead Hall (downstairs)    
                7:00 - 7:30 P.M., coffee and dessert
                    7:30 to 8:30 P.M., lecture    

Burma, mainland Southeast Asia's largest country, should be of great 
concern not only because it destabilizes the region with an influx of 
refugees, but because it is also the source of 60% of the heroin smuggled 
into the United States.

Dr. Win, a political exile from Burma, is a professor/counselor at Orange 
Coast College in Costa Mesa, California.  With his wife Riri, he has made 
several visits to refugee camps on the Thai/Burma border.  Earlier this 
year, they entered Burma's Kachin highlands bordering China's Yunnan 
Province.  They journeyed to these remote places to do voluntary relief 
work for refugees from Burma's 48-year-old civil war.

In 1993, Dr. Win was asked to help British film director John Boorman 
produce the motion picture "Beyond Rangoon," a fictional story of a 
traumatized young American physician who was stranded in the Burma of 
August 1988, during the tumultuous pro-democracy demonstrations in which 
the military massacred thousands of young students, Buddhist monks, and 
other citizens, to re-assert its power.  Dr. Win was privileged to play 
two small roles in the film as well.

Donations to help Burma's refugees would be highly appreciated.