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NEWS - Myanmar Reopens Closed Medic
- Subject: NEWS - Myanmar Reopens Closed Medic
- From: Rangoonp@xxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:22:00
Subject: NEWS - Myanmar Reopens Closed Medical Institutes
Myanmar Reopens Closed Medical Institutes
Reuters
05-JAN-99
YANGON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government
on Tuesday said it had reopened four medical institutes--
three in the capital Yangon and one in Mandalay-- after
closing them down for about two years.
Undergraduate classes in the four institutes and in another
two dozen other universities and colleges nationwide were
suspended a few days before qualifying examinations in
mid-December 1996 amid anti-government demonstrations
by thousands of students.
The universities and colleges were briefly opened in
September 1998 to hold examinations for students.
Political analysts in Yangon believed that the reopening of
the institutes by the government could be an experiment to
test the atmosphere for reopening other institutes of higher
learning.
"Institute of Medicine-I (Yangon), Institute of Medicine (2)
(Yangon), Institute of Medicine (Mandalay) and Institute of
Dental Medicine (Yangon) reopened with effect from January
5, 1999," a statement from the defence ministry's Office of
Strategic Studies (OSS) said, without giving further
details.
The OSS is the spokesman for the ruling State Peace and
Development Council (SPDC).
Officials of the reopened institutes were not immediately
available for comment on the situation at their campuses on
Tuesday. But witnesses said the atmosphere was calm.
About 5,000 students are enrolled at the four institutes.