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Subject: Re: The Canberra Times, Burma protest turns ugly

 It is no wonder for most of the Government-owned factories were destroyed and many police men were stoned to death during the so-called demonstrations of famous 1988 disturbances in Myanmar.

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On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:38:42   john rabin wrote:
>The protest that seized the Burmese junta's embassy was not as ugly as
>the Canberra Times defied. In fact, it was a civilized protest compare
>to the Burmese regime that rapes thousands of girls under age of 12,
>killed 3,000 peacefull protesters in 1988, jails thousands of democracy
>supporets, forces thousands of minority ethnic to become homeless and
>landless, and closes all higher lernaing.
>
>I as an Amreican can say that the students from Burma did very good job
>during the protest, and I am urging them to do it again. And The
>Canberra government should not arrest the students next time. That's
>all I want to say now.
>
>
>--- kyaw luntin <kluntin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Flags burned, fences smashed as Burma protest turns
>> ugly
>> 
>> The Canberra Times Friday September 10, 1999
>> 
>>     About 200 protesters burned flags, smashed
>> fences and hurled pot plants 
>> at the Burmese embassy in Canberra yesterday after a
>> peaceful sit-in turned 
>> ugly.
>> 
>>     Police and Australian Protective Service
>> officers had to call for help 
>> after being overwhelmed by the demonstration against
>> Burma's ruling military 
>> junta.
>> 
>>     Demonstrators burned a Burmese flag outside the
>> embassy and charged 
>> through 15 police and broke through fences to enter
>> the grounds.
>> 
>>     "We intend to stay here until the Burmese
>> dictators allow democratic 
>> government," protest organiser Maung Maung Than
>> said.
>> 
>>     After police reinforcements arrived, the
>> protesters were dragged away 
>> one be one, sparking ugly scenes as organisers
>> traded blows with authorities 
>> on the kerb outside.
>> 
>>     The protest was organised by the 9999 Action
>> Committee, a loose 
>> coalition of Burmese-Australian democratic action
>> groups formed as part of a 
>> world-wide protest to mark the August 8, 1988, or
>> 8888, uprising against the 
>> Rangoon dictatorship.
>> 
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