[Fwd: Hunger Strike In Japan On Aug

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Subject: [Fwd: Hunger Strike In Japan On August 8, 1996]

Watherly@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Immediate Press Release
> 
> July 26, 1996
> 
> More than 20 students and members form Democratic Burmese Students
> Organization (DBSO-Japan) and 8.8 Group of Japan will stage a 48-hour long
> hunger strike in Hibia Park in Tokyo, Japan on August 8, 1996 at 8.00 a.m..
> Other members from Burma Youth Volunteer Association (BYVA-Japan), Burmese
> Association in Japan (BAIJ), and National League for Democracy
> (NLD-Japan-Liberal Area) will also join after they finish the demonstration
> on that day. Over one hundred Burmese and Japanese will partake the strike.
> 
> Demands:
> 
> 1. To ban all Japanese companies doing business with the junta so-called
> State Law and Restoration Council (SLORC).
> 2.  To boycott "Visit Myanmar 1996".
> 3.  To stop ODA aids to Burma.
> 
> Respect:
> 
> They will sacrifice their daily food for encouragement of democracy movements
> in  Burma and world communities. And, indeed, the strikers need your support.
> 
> Things you can help:
> 
> 1.  Fax or e-mail your supporting letters to hunger strikers at (03)
> 3954-8435/ 3916-5996, and E-mail- soewin@xxxxxxxx
> 2.  Send or fax your personal letter or statement to your nearest Japanese
> embassy that  your support of the hunger strikers.
> 3.  Contact the strikers in Japan and join with the hunger strike form your
> home or your work.
> 
> DBSO (Japan)

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