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French Prime Time News Again !!



>From Paris, Dawn Star, Euro-Burmanet, June 9 1996

Paris - TF1, the top French television station, tonight continued its reporting on the saga of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the democratic NLD. In  an unusally long reportage from Rangoon, and while the French nation returns from a hot summer weekend dominated by the Roland Garos tennis finals, French national attention was once again riveted on Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mme. Suu Kyi, with live footage of her meeting  in front of her home on University Avenue  in a  crowd estimated at 10 000 supporters chanting democratic slogans as the people continue to defy the military dictatorship. 

Mme. Suu Kyi was interviewed in front of names of 121 political prisoners of the NLD arrested during the crackdown last month by the regime that denied the NLD their victory in the 1990 national elections.  The reportage quoted Mme. Suu Kyi saying she was " convinced of the justice of our force " against the military dictatorship, and added that she would lead the NLD and the people of Burma in her struggle " to the end ". 

Yet, while French national television has stepped up its coverage of the current Burmese crisis, it continues a virtual black-out of state-owned TOTAL's connection in the billion dollar Yadana pipeline energy project, unanimously denounced by the United Nationas and human rights groups the world over for its use of forced labor and otherwise considered as French support for the repressive military regime.