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Dear friends,

I like to inform you, that some of my friends and I - mostly social workers
in a hospital for drug dependents in Vienna/Austria - sent the following
message to Interpol by fax, including 26 signatures.


INTERPOL'S HEADQUARTERS
Quai Charles de Gaulle
F-69006 LYON
France

Dear Sirs,

we deeply regret the decision of the General Secretariat of Interpol zu
organize the 4th international conference on heroin from February 23rd to
26th just in Rangoon.

Burma is wellknown as the world's # 1 producer and exporter of heroin and
still the so-called government of Burma is backing one of the world's worst
drug traffickers, Khun Sa, and it has been banned by the international
community for ist role in money laundering.

This so-called government of Burma has absolutely no democratic
legitimation, considering the results of the 1990's elections.

The Burmese junta is ruling the entire country with oppression. Thousands
of prisoners of conscience are jailed just for demanding democratic rights.
Torture, forced labor, forced relocation of ethnic groups, the abuse of
children as soldiers, the abuse of women are widely used by this so-called
government to keep ist people under pressure.

It's hard to understand, not to say incredible, that Interpol is unaware of
these circumstances.

Holding an international conference in nowadays Burma means backing a cynic
regime which is violating the basic human rights day by day many thousand
times!

We earnestly request that at the very least you inform all the members of
the conference of these circumstances in Burma before starting this
conference and we expect that your members of conference take measures upon
their return to demand

+ an immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience in
Burma
+ an immediate stop of torture
+ an immediate stop of military attacks and forced relocation of all ethnic
groups in    
   Burma
+ an immediate stop of forced labor
+ an immediate stop of children and women abuse in Burma

ST. POELTEN, 12 02 1999

                                      FOLLOWING 26 SIGNATURES