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NCGUB: PM CALLS FOR PEACEFUL END TO EMBASSY TAKEOVER
??only way to put the pin back in the grenade is through dialogue.?

For Immediate Release, Oct. 1, 1999

NCGUB Prime Minister Dr. Sein Win today is calling for a peaceful end to
the standoff at the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok, saying, ?Our movement is
committed to non-violent struggle under the leadership of Daw Aung San
Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy.  We share the students?
frustration, but blood must not be shed.  The NCGUB does not believe
that violent means are the best way to achieve peaceful ends.?

The students appear to have acted out of outrage at the regime?s
increasing repression and frustration with the failure of the
international community to respond to the plight of Burma?s people.
The takeover at the Bangkok Embassy is the most recent in a series of
acts responding to the escalating human rights abuses in Burma.(1)  In
September 1999, two British citizens,  Rachel Goldwyn and James
Mawdsley, received harsh prison sentences for staging non-violent
protests in Rangoon.  ?We fear that there will only be more of these
incidents until there is real dialogue in Burma,? said U Bo Hla Tint,
the Minister for North and South American Affairs.

In a speech at the Asia Society?s New York office on September 24,
Burmese Foreign Minister Win Aung said about the regime, "We are like
people holding a hand grenade, where the safety pin is out."(2)   Dr.
Sein Win responded, saying:

The only way to put the pin back in the grenade is through dialogue.
While the ultimate cause of the Embassy takeover is the regime?s harsh
rule in Burma and refusal to honor the 1990 election results, the way
out of the crisis in Burma--and at the embassy--is through dialogue, not
violence.  We appeal, therefore, to the Thai authorities to continue
their efforts to bring about a peaceful end to the standoff and will do
whatever we can to help.

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(1) See AFP: DESPERATE EXILED MYANMAR DISSIDENTS RESORT TO VIOLENCE (Oct
1, 1999): ?As the world rushes to intervene to stop atrocities in places
like Kosovo and East Timor, there is a growing feeling among Myanmar?s
various opposition groups that their battle for justice and self rule
has been forgotten by the international community.  Now it seems some
have decided to take matters into their own hands.?

(2) THE BANGKOK POST: JUNTA'S MINISTER SAYS MILITARY WANTS TO SURRENDER
POWER (Sept 28, 1999)
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EMAIL: NCGUB@xxxxxxxxxxx
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In Europe, contact the NCGUB at +49 (2173) 90 73 35 or by fax at:  +49
(2173) 90 73 34
In Australia, contact the NCGUB by fax at:  +61 (6) 297 7773
The N.C.G.U.B. is constituted by Members of Parliament democratically
elected in 1990.


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