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Press Release
September 16, 1997





Human Rights Year Book 1996 Reveals SLORC Abuses

A book launch for the "Burma Human Rights Year Book 1996" will be held at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand on September 17, 1997 at 7:00 pm.  A 664 pages book published by the Human Rights Documentation unit of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) reveals the ranges of human rights violations committed by the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), ruling military regime of Burma.

The Human Rights Year Book 1996, prefaced by Dr. Sein Win, the Prime Minister of the NCGUB, covers the systematic persecution of the elected representatives, leaders, and members of the national League for Democracy (NLD), repression of pro-democracy activists and politicians, and atrocities against the ethnic nationalities at the border.

Examples of repression and human rights violations by the SLORC are documented in fourteen comprehensive chapters including "Extra-judicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Execution, Rights of the Child, Freedom of Opinion, Expression and Press, etc." along with the selected interviews conducted along the Burma's borders and inside Burma. This book also presents the SLORC original orders demanding forced labor, forced relocation and other repressive orders as well as the photographs depicting various human rights violations.

This book is dedicated to the countless citizens of Burma who have sacrificed their homes, their freedom and their lives to lifting the veil of terror that shrouds the truth in Burma today.

For more information, please contact Aung Myo Min at (662) 591-5839.



Human Rights Documentation Unit
National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB)



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