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Myanmar Schools Give Exams



Myanmar School Finally Gives Exams

 .c The Associated Press 

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Almost two years after colleges and universities in
Myanmar's biggest cities were shut down because of student unrest, students
get to take their final exams - off campus. 

Students in Yangon, the capital, and Mandalay, the country's second biggest
city, will take exams for the 1996-97 academic year on Aug. 18 in their
hometowns, according to official letters sent to them. 

Classes were canceled indefinitely in December 1996, but in recent months some
have resumed. 

The closing of colleges has become an embarrassment for the government,
already widely condemned for human rights abuses and for stifling a pro-
democracy movement in Myanmar, also known as Burma.