Burmese dissidents hold Tokyo rally

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Subject: Burmese dissidents hold Tokyo rally for Aung San suu Kyi

The Japan Times
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96-05-28

Myanmar dissents hold Tokyo rally for Aung San Suu Kyi

	Myanmar dissents in Tokyo expressed their support Monday
for democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi and called for the immediate 
release of arrested members of her National League for Democracy. 
They also renewed calls for Japan to suspend its official development
assistance to their country.
	On the sixth anniversary of the Nld's landslide victory in the 
May 27, 1990, general election, more than 90 Myanmar dissidents and
supporters rallied outside their embassy in Tokyo, shouting slogans
calling for the immediate release of detained NLD members, most of 
whom were electedto parliament.
	Their expressed support for Suu Kyi and the NLD, and denounced
the ruling military junta, known as the State Law and Order Restoration
Council. The demonstrators also en-acted a mock ballot, placing votes
in an NLD box but shunning a box for a military backed party.
	Muneharu Wada, deputy head of the Tokyo chapter of New Party
Sakigage, the smallest component in Japan's ruling coalition, said,
"Having participated in the rally, I believe the massage of the 
slogans got through to the onlookers." Wada has met with Suu Kyi in
Rangoon and is also familiar with the Myanmar dissident movement in
Tokyo. ODA to Myanmar is now limited to what Japan calls small-scale
humanitarian aid.

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Information Committee.
Burma Youth Volunteer Association- Japan.