Euro-Burmanet: IHT press on 8888, w

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Headline: International Herald Tribune : Burmese Exiles Mark Uprising
Keyword: National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu Kyi, political prisoners, human rights, Slorc abuses, Japan Hunger Strike (8888)
Date: August 9,1996
Source: Euro-Burmanet, IHT 
Section: ebn
Rubrique: main 

This from the IHT (Reuters)  today (" Briefly  Asia " section, p.4, lead story) facing two stories on threatening French labor crisis expected this fall against the Chirac-Juppé over draconian pressure on workers, the unemployed and pensioners ; and the EU upoar over US Iran/Libya sanctions.

Bumese Exiles Mark Uprising
Bangkok - Exiled Burmese dissidents shed their own blood and staged hunger strikes Thursday to mark the eighth anniversary of one of the bloodiest days in a failed pro-democracy uprising in Rangoon.

Several members of a group of chanting dissidents cut themselves during a protest in front of the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok an smeared their blood on the embassy wall, next to paper blood drops taped to the embassy sign.

In central Tokyo, a group of Burmese activists started a 36-hour hunger strike to demand that the Japanese government halt economic assistance to Burma's military government. (Reuters)