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Subject: NEWS - Activists Demonstrate During the SPDC's Celebration of Independence

Activists Demonstrate During the SPDC's Celebration of Independence

Rangoon Post  4 January, 2000

Washington, D.C.

  Despite rain, darkness and falling temperatures members of the DC-
Burma Activist Network, ABSDF, DBSO, and Burmese Women's Union
demonstrated outside of the dinner celebration held by SPDC Embassy
staff in Rosslyn, Virginia. 

  The staff from the 16 attending embassies were greeted directly by
demonstrators only inches from their vehicles as they entered and exited
the parking lot.  Shouts of "Shame, shame, shame on you" and "Down with
Ne Win and Khin Nyunt" were amplified by 3 hand held amplifiers.

  One demonstrator, despite the fact she is still recovering from
Bronchitis and the flu, attended to deliver her message to junta and
their celebrants. The demonstration eneded after 2 hours in cold, damp
conditions.