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Free Burma Day, Berkeley CA 8/10



Bay Area Burma Roundtable 
Press Release	 
Burma:  The South Africa of the Nineties 

August 1, 1996 
For Immediate Release 
For More Information,  
Call Jane Jerome  at 408/467-2721 

The Bay Area Burma Roundtable, in cooperation with the  
National Coalition for Corporate Withdrawal from Burma, invites  
the general public to a day of seminars on the political situation in  
the Southeast Asian nation of Burma, also known as Myanmar.   

The conference will be held Saturday, August 10, on the fourth  
floor of the University of California, Berkeleys Martin Luther King,  
Jr. student union, located at Telegraph and Bancroft,  from 9 a.m.  
to 4:30 p.m.    

Workshop topics will cover the general political, environmental  
and human rights issues, along with activist responses to these  
wrongs, in the form of campus, local, national and international  
organizing of shareholder resolutions and selective purchasing  
laws, boycotts and other tactics to enhance the prospects for  
peace and democracy in Burma, a country held hostage to the  
violent whims of the ruling military regime, SLORC.   

Speakers include experts living on the border with refugees,  
academicians and grassroots lobbyists, members of the socially  
responsible investment community and others well acquainted  
with the broad range of issues confronting the peoples of Burma.   

Burma is being called the South Africa of the 90s as concerned  
activists have taken to implementing sanctions against the  
repressive regime in response to Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel  
Peace Prize laureate and leader of the National League for  
Democracy, which won the 1990 elections whose results have  
been disregarded by the countrys military dictatorship.  Suu Kyi  
has asked the international investment community to stay out of  
Burma, as corporate involvement serves only to strengthen the  
regime financially and underwrite its severe oppression of the  
people in Burma, through forced labor, forcible relocation,  
extrajudicial execution, torture and rape, campaigns against  
ethnic minority groups and the silencing of dissent by banning  
freedom of speech, association and the press.   

Admission to the event is free and the public is welcome.   
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.   

Bay Area Burma Roundtable   
P.O. Box 612492    
San Jose, CA  95161