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UNIVERSITY AVENUE IN RANGOON SEALED



University Avenue Sealed
Rangoon/16.4.95

Since the beginning of April, the NLD's party has prepared to
celebrate the new year water festival in front of Daw Aung Suu
Kyi's residence. Thingyan or the water festival is the biggest
event in Burma.

Normally University Avenue where her residence is located is a
crowded road in every Thingyan festival as it connects from one
township to another in the area. 

>From the very first day of Thingyan celebrations up until today
the University Avenue has been sealed from both ends by the SLORC
(State Law and Order Restoration Council). All vehicles and
people have been prohibited to pass through this road and have to
use the other ways instead.
 
Today is the first day of the new year in Burmese calendar and
Rangooners stop playing water but go to listen to monks recite
Dhamma to repel the evils and wrongs of the previous year. There
is also a custom of freeing fishes into lakes and rivers as a
part of merit making to welcome the new year.   

A news has been spread in Rangoon that Aung San Suu Kyi has
called her NLD parliamentarians throughout the country to gather
in her residence to hold a meeting. It appears that the SLORC 
intends to disrupt the meeting that may not even take place
because they clearly want her to confine in her home. Whether the
meeting is taking place or not it is a precaution from the part
of the SLORC to stop democratic messages reaching other parts of
the country. Recently, the stance of the SLORC towards democratic
movement has become more aggressive. 


Voice of the Peacock
ABSDF(camp 88)