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Subject: NEWS - Scattered Protestors Protest French President Chirac's Visit

Scattered Protestors Protest French President Chirac's Visit

Rangoon Post - 18 February, 1999

  Frances President Jacque Chirac's  arrival in Washington, D.C. just
after 12:30 PM was met by scattered protestors.  

  Protest signs saying "Free Burma", "France out of Burma" and " Total
Oil out of Burma" were unfurled to display the Free Burma movement's
dismay over France's Burma policy or lack of policy and Total Oil's
involvement in a gas pipeline supplying gas to Thailand that can barely
afford to pay for it.  

   Connected with that pipeline are stories of forced relocation, slave
labor, murder by the military and many other human rights abuses.