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FBC: BLOCK SLORC VISIT TO THE USA



Subject: PLEASE BLOCK SLORC's TOURISM TEAM TO THE USA 

Dear Fellow Spiders:

Please repost this message to all relevent lists.


The SLORC is sending a 40 member tourism promotional team to the Disney
World located in Orlando, Florida. The team is scheduled to be there from
September 9-12, 1996 and is to attend a tourism fair there.  The SLORC team
is to be headed by Lt. Colonel Khin Maung Lat of the Directorate of Defence
Services Intelligence widely known as Military Intelligence (MIS).  Khin
Maung Latt is also the Director General of Myanmar Tours and Travel (MTT)
in the Ministry of Tourism Affairs.

Actions urged:

1).  Please call, write, or fax the US State Department and urge them to
deny their entry visas to the US as they will be promoting tourism as part
of SLORC's "Visit Myanmar Year 1996.  SLORC representatives have absolutely
no rights to promote in the United States their tourism project pillored by
forced labor.

Office of the Secretary
7th Floor, 2201 C Street 20520
Phone (202)647-5291

Secretary of State  Warren M. Christopher
Executive Assistant  Robert A. Bradtke (202) 647-9572

East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau

Assistant Secretary  Winston Lord, Room 6205, phone: 202-647-9596


2) If plan (1) doesn't succeed,  spiders in Florida and nearby states,
please organize a protest rally at the Disney World around September 9-12.


The Political Situation Inside:


Things are heating up inside Burma.  The SLORC is going after supporters of
the NLD and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.  While the top leaders of Burma's
democracy movement including Daw Suu, U Tin OO and U Kyi Maung remain free,
the attendees of Daw Suu's weekly "People Forum" are being picked up from
their homes by the Military Intelligence (MI).  The number of NLD members
and supporters who are recently arrested is now up to about 60.  The MIs
have just taken away eight students from their homes who met with Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi on August 8, 1996.

The on-going crackdown indicates that the SLORC IS out of control convinced
that the Clinton Administration is not going to lift a finger so long as
the SLORC doesn't lay their hand on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

FBC's Plan:

The FBC is planning a 2 day-long Fast for a Free Burma beginning on October 7.

Here is the list of schools and colleges that will participate in the fast.

1-Santa Monica College
2-University of Houston
3-University of Wisconsin-Madison
4-Stanford
5-Radcliffe
6-Princeton
7-UCLA
8-Berkeley
9-Johns Hopkins
10-Northwestern
11-University of Chicago
12-Warren-Wilson College
13-Tufts University
14-University of Michigan
15-Penn State
16-University of Washington

The target number of colleges that the FBC wants for the fast: 50

If your school/community Free Burma group has not signed up for the fast,
but is interested in being a part of this national event, please contact
zni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


The fast will be targetted at President Clinton and will call for immediate
sanctions against the SLORC by the executive order.  Also it is intended to
call world's attention to the on-going genocide in Burma and the complicity
of US (and other) investors.

According to the Cohen Amendment (a water-down version of
McConnell-Monyihan Burma Bill) recently passed at the US Senate, the Senate
authorizes the US President to impose economic sanctions against the SLORC
by the executive order if there is a crackdown on the democracy movement
and if the SLORC harms, arrests, or exiles Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.


*Unconfirmed* report:

The SLORC's Ambassador to Canada, Maj. General Kyaw Win has just defected
to the Canadian authorities in Toronto.  He is a former professor at the
Institute of Medicine II and a trusted physician of Burma's aging despot
General Ne Win.  The FBC is still seeking to confirm this news.

peace, love, and hope,

FBC