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BurmaNet News August 23, 1996 (r)



Dear Strider
I received your issue #497(August 23) incompleted. If you don't mind, please
send it again to me.
Thanks
Soe Win
At 11:09 AM 8/23/96 -0700, you wrote:
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>The BurmaNet News: August 23, 1996
>Issue #497
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>Noted in Passing:
>		ASEAN follows a strategy of trade, investment and 
>		dialogue to encourage its generals to ease their civil 
>		crackdown. We do not agree that this policy will bring a 
>		change with this military regime - Sein Win (see: AP: 
>		EXILED DEMOCRACY LEADER SAYS 'ENGAGEMENT' 
>		FAILED)
>HEADLINES:
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>AP: 19 BURMESE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED
>VOA: BURMA SENTENCINGS
>URGENT ACTION ALERT: SLORC SENTENCES 11 NLD ORGANIZERS
>ABSDF: CHINESE TROOPS MOVEMENT IN KHUN SA'S AREA
>ABSDF: SLORC'S HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN KYAUT KYI 
>ABSDF: EIGHT KILLED IN TAVOY-MERGUI PLANE CRASH
>US EMBASSY RANGOON: FOREIGN ECONOMIC TRENDS - BURMA
>UPI: RAMOS: ASEAN WAY THE RIGHT WAY
>AP: BURMA SOLDIERS TO TAKE PART IN INFRASTRUCTURE 
>AP: EXILED DEMOCRACY LEADER SAYS 'ENGAGEMENT' FAILED
>RADIO MYANMAR: REVIEW OF SLORC VISIT TO MALAYSIA
>THE STAR: MALAYSIA SAYS ASEAN POLICY ON BURMA PAYS OFF
>THE STAR: CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT CAN LIFT MYANMAR
>BKK POST: SEARCHES HELD IN SHAN COMMUNITIES
>JANE'S INTELLIGENCE REVIEW: CORRESPONDENCE - BURMA
>MYANMAR ALIN: VOICE OF THE PEOPLE OF SHWEBO
>KYEMON: PREVALENCE OF LAW AND ORDER...
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>AP: 19 BURMESE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED
>August 22, 1996
>From: John Scherb <mcs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>RANGOON, Burma (AP) - The military regime has arrested 19 people
>accused of plotting with pro-democracy advocates in India to
>destabilize Burma, state-run media reported Thursday.
> 
>Two of those arrested are members of pro-democracy leader Aung
>San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, the New Light of
>Myanmar newspaper said.
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>The newspaper said the India-based expatriate wing of Suu Kyi's
>party was planning to train Burmese activists in "political
>defiance" and establish a dissident cell in Monywa, 400 miles
>northwest of Rangoon.
>        
>Those arrested were involved in the plot, the newspaper said, and
>also distributed leaflets intended to undermine government economic
>development programs and plans to draft a new constitution. Burma,
>also known as Myanmar, is one of Asia's poorest countries.
>        
>It was unclear when the arrests of Doe Htaung and Khun Myint Tun
>were made.
>        
>The arrests were announced a week after Suu Kyi's personal
>secretary, Win Htein, was sentenced to seven years in prison in a
>separate case.
>        
>A statement Thursday from the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok,
>Thailand, said Win Htein conspired with four others to gather
>misleading information, including a videotape, in order to "trick"
>the UN Human Rights Commission into believing that forced labor
>was being used in the countryside. The five were convicted on Aug. 15.
>        
>The U.S. government, the UN's International Labor Organization,
>and a number of human rights groups have accused the government of
>using forced labor on a vast scale for infrastructure projects.
>        
>In the past, the government has not made details of political trials public
>
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