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Socialist Youth protest Burmese jun



Socialist Youth protest Burmese junta for latest crack down

Mumbai, September 27, 2000
Mizzima News Group (www.mizzima.com)

The Socialist youth organizations in Asia-Pacific region yesterday
condemned the Burmese military regime for placing Burmese pro-democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest and for the regime’s
latest crack down on opposition political activists in the country.

At the end of its four days meeting, the International Union of
Socialist Union (IUSY) – Asia-Pacific Region member organizations,
adopted a resolution calling for the immediate restoration of freedom of
Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders of National League for Democracy and
urge the government to guarantee the fundamental rights of the citizens
in Burma. “We hold the Burmese regime responsible for their safety
and welfare”, said the resolution.

The Asia-Pacific Regional Committee of IUSY held its meeting in Mumbai,
India from 23rd to 26th this month and about fifty representatives from
more than twenty countries in the region such as India, Burma,
Bangladesh, Australia, Malaysia, Philippines, Fiji, New Zealand and
Japan participated in the meeting. Representatives of exiled Burmese
groups: All Burma Students League (ABSL), Students and Youth Congress of
Burma (SYCB) and Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS) participated
in the meeting.

“ We know that Nobel Peace Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi cannot go
out from her house. We know that they keep political prisoners. We
demand immediate restoration of their freedom”, said Ms. Lisa
Pelling, Secretary General of the International Union of Socialist Youth
(IUSY), which represent 135 social, democratic youth and labour
organizations from more than a hundred countries around the world.

The participants of the meeting also sent a memorandum to the Burmese
military leader Senior General Than Shwe demanding the military
government to immediately stop all the attempts to
“annihilate” the National League for Democracy (NLD) and
urge the junta to enter into dialogue with NLD led by Aung San Suu Kyi
to break the current political deadlock in Burma.

Since September 22, the military government has put Nobel Laureate Aung
San Suu Kyi and some senior leaders of NLD under arrest while several
opposition political activists are being detained in the latest crack
down on the democratic movement in Burma.