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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, telephone cut
"constructive engagement" has so evidently and abysmally failed"
IHT & Washington Post --  Lead EDITORIAL, Weekend Edition October 
5-6,1996
"Cracking Down on Burma"

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"Cracking Down on Burma"

No one disputes that the Asian naion of Burma and its 45 million people
have the misfortune to be ruled by one of the most odious regimes on 
earth. The question is what the rest of the world should do about it.

The military junta, which goes by the appropriately unappealing acronym 
of Slorc, for State Law and Order Restoration Council, in recent days 
has revealed
again its lack of shame and moral compunction. Eight hundred civilians, 
most of 
them peaceful activists for democracy, have been rounded up and jailed;
history suggests that many are being mistreated. Burma's rightful leader 
--
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the brave woman who overwhelmingly won an election 
six years ago but never was permitted to take office -- has been placed 
under house
arrest.  Her telephone connections to the outside world have been 
severed.

All this came in response to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's attempt to hold a 
peaceful meeting
of her National League for Democracy. As usual, she has responded with 
calm and optimism to 
the latest outrage. Slipping past police barricades to meet with 
reporters, she said 
Slorc's action reflected "the extent of their fear, their nervousness" 
and would in
the end prove a boon. "People are fed up with this kind of stupid 
behavior, and the
international community agrees now the Slorc is getting worse, not 
better," the
Nobel Peace laureate said.

Now it is up to the international community to prove her correct. 
President Bill Clinton
took a step in the right direction Thursday when he signed a 
proclamation barring Slorc rulers
and their relatives from visiting the United States. Burma's neighbors, 
whose policy of 
"constructive engagement" has so evidently and abysmally failed, 
indicated that they were
rethinking the prompt admission of Burma to their ASEAN alliance. Some 
European nations are pushing for trade sanctions.

Those halting steps are welcome but hardly sufficient.
A new US law, signed this past week by Mr. Clinton, mandats the 
imposition of sanctions
in the event of "large-scale repression". It is difficult to view the 
crackdown in Burma as anything else.
Now Burma's dictators and democrats alike will be watching
to see which side the United States and its allies support.

-- The Washington Post 



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