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- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:43:00
Subject: Burmese opposition leader calls for human rights
Friday, April 9, 1999 Published at 11:32 GMT 12:32 UK
World: Asia-Pacific
Burmese opposition leader
calls for human rights
The Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has
urged the United Nations to take action after what she
called the worst year of repression in Burma for almost a
decade.
In a recorded message to the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights, meeting in Geneva, the
Nobel peace prize winner appealed to the international
community to exert greater pressure on Burma's military
government to restore democratic rule.
Miss Suu Kyi said more than one hundred and fifty
elected members of parliament, along with many
ordinary members of her National League for
Democracy, were still in detention.
Aung San Suu Kyi said the world had not fully grasped
the extent of the oppression by the military regime. The
BBC south-east Asia correspondent says Miss Suu
Kyi's call comes amid continued political deadlock in
Burma, and is sure to further enrage the government.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service