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ncgub hails visa ban, calls for tot
- Subject: ncgub hails visa ban, calls for tot
- From: maung@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 21:03:00
Subject: ncgub hails visa ban, calls for total sanctions
NATIONAL COALITION GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF BURMA
815 15th St, N.W, Suite 910, Washington, DC 20005
Tel: (202)393-7342 (202)393 4312 Fax (202)393-7342
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PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE
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VISA RESTRICTIONS WELCOMED, U.S.URGED TO APPLY SANCTIONS
The National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma
welcomes the proclamation suspending the entry into the
United States of "persons formulating, implementing or
benefiting from policies that are impeding the transition
to democracy in Burma, and their immediate family members."
The decision is long overdue because the military junta
that runs Burma has been imposing visa restrictions against
government and UN officials, ministers and others,
including Nobel Laureates, whom it believes will be meeting
with the leaders of the democracy movement or if the visits
will benefit the movement for democracy.
The military junta, however, has not stopped at that. It
has already stepped up its repression in the country. The
most glaring example is the latest round up of elected
representatives and leading members of the National League
for Democracy (NLD). Supporters of the NLD were also
beaten and arrested when they came to listen to the weekend
speeches by the leader of the democracy movement, Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi.
Today, she is for all practical purposes under house arrest
with troops stationed at her house and on her street.
Elected NLD members are being coerced by the military
intelligence to resign and the military junta is making
every effort to systematically decimate and incapacitate
the NLD.
As Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has said in her TV interview, "Do
we literally have to die on the streets before people start
saying there is a repression in Burma?"
There is a large scale repression in Burma and the United
States should take immediate action to impose sanctions, as
denoted in Section 570 (a) (3) (b) of the FY'97 Foreign
Operations Appropriations bill.
The people of Burma need to know that the U.S. stands
firmly with them and their democratically elected leader,
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, at this critical moment in our
struggle for democracy.
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