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- Subject: voa burma, fr euro-burmanet (paris)
- From: cd@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 15:36:00
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Headline: SUU KYI ON SLORC AND NATION-BUILDING 9/9/96
Keywords: NLD ban, National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu
Kyi, human rights, political prisoners, torture, murder, execution,
rape, Slorc abuses, forced labor, forced relocation, Gen Kyaw Ba,
VOA-Gary Thomas,
Date:9 sept 1996
Source: BNN,FBC, GARY THOMAS-VOA
Section: ebn
Rubrique: daask
RANGOON -- IN BURMA, THE GOVERNMENT AND PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS
CONTINUE A BATTLE OF WILLS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY. EACH
SIDE BELIEVES IT IS FIRMLY IN THE RIGHT, AND THE RHETORIC COMING
FROM BOTH CAMPS IS HEATED.
THERE IS AN ESTABLISHMENT IN RANGOON, NAMED "THE HAPPY
NATION RESTAURANT". IT IS A WISHFUL THOUGHT, FOR BURMA'S
POLITICAL LANDSCAPE REMAINS BLEAK.
THE RULING STATE LAW AND ORDER RESTORATION COUNCIL, KNOWN AS
SLORC, IS RUN BY A WELL-ENTRENCHED MILITARY THAT SEES OPPOSITION
LEADER, AUNG SAN SUU KYI AS A DANGEROUS DEMAGOGUE WHO WILL BRING
ANARCHY TO THE COUNTRY.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE-WINNER AND LEADER OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR
DEMOCRACY, AUNG SAN SUU KYI, VIEWS THE COUNTRY'S RULING GENERALS
AS REPRESSIVE AND CORRUPT, BENT ON CRUSHING DISSENT AND HOLDING
ON TO POWER BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY. SHE WANTS THE RESULTS
OF THE 1990 ELECTION, WHICH THE NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY
DECISIVELY WON AND THE GOVERNMENT NULLIFIED, IMPLEMENTED.
MINISTER OF HOTELS AND TOURISM AND A MEMBER OF SLORC, LIEUTENANT
GENERAL KYAW BA, SAYS THE MILITARY WILL NOT TURN OVER THE REINS
OF POWER TO HER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. HE SAYS THE MILITARY
MUST STAY IN POWER, BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE CAN KEEP ORDER IN BURMESE
SOCIETY.
/// KYAW BA ACT ///
IF SOMEBODY IS GOING TO TAKE OVER THE ADMINISTRATION,
THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT. THEY WOULD NOT BE
ABLE TO KEEP CONTROL. OUR PEOPLE ARE VERY EASILY
AROUSED AND THEY CAN EASILY MAKE SOME MISCHIEF. SO WE
HAVE TO CONTROL THIS FIRMLY AND NOW WE ARE LAYING DOWN
OUR FOUNDATION.
/// END ACT ///
THE FOUNDATION GENERAL KYAW BA REFERS TO, IS A CONVENTION THAT IS
DRAFTING A NEW CONSTITUTION THE GOVERNMENT SAYS WILL BRING
MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRACY TO BURMA.
BUT, IT WILL CLEARLY NOT BE A WESTERN-STYLE MULTI-PARTY
DEMOCRACY. THE MILITARY, DEEPLY FEARFUL OF A FLARE-UP OF ETHNIC
INSURGENCES OR POLITICAL UNREST, WILL CONTINUE TO PLAY THE
DOMINANT ROLE. GOVERNMENT SOURCES SAY THE CURRENT DRAFT DOCUMENT
CALLS FOR RESERVING 25-PERCENT OF THE PARLIAMENT SEATS FOR THE
MILITARY.
GENERAL KYAW BA SAYS WESTERN-STYLE DEMOCRACY COULD BRING CHAOS TO
BURMA.
/// KYAW BA ACT ///
WE ARE MARCHING TOWARD DEMOCRACY, BUT THERE WILL BE A
BIG DIFFERENCE. WE BELIEVE IF WE ARE GOING TO FOLLOW
ACCORDING TO WESTERN DEMOCRACY -- WILL THEY GUARANTEE
THAT OUR COUNTRY WILL NOT BE DISINTEGRATED?
/// END ACT ///
AUNG SAN SUU KYI DISMISSES THE CONVENTION AS AN UNDEMOCRATIC
PROCEDURE THAT ALLOWS NO DISSENTING OR ALTERNATIVE VIEWS.
/// AUNG SAN SUU KYI ACT ///
LET US LEAVE ALONE POLITICAL DIALOGUE, THEY WOULD NOT
EVEN DIALOGUE ABOUT THE WORKING PROCEDURES OF THE
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS WITHIN THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. SO
IT IS NOT MUCH OF A CONVENTION. IT IS JUST A PAPER
READING CEREMONY.
/// END ACT ///
AUNG SAN SUU KYI SAYS SHE WANTS TO SEE AN INCLUSIVE, RATHER THAN
EXCLUSIVE FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN BURMA.
/// AUNG SAN SUU KYI ACT ///
WE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CAN SIT AND
SAY THIS IS HOW WE ARE GOING TO RESOLVE ALL OUR
PROBLEMS. WE HAVE TO TALK, WE BELIEVE IN
COMMUNICATIONS, WE BELIEVE IN TALKING TO PEOPLE AND
LISTENING TO THEIR VIEWS AND BRINGING THEM IN.
THEN, ONE OF THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SLORC AND US IS THAT
WE BELIEVE IN INCLUDING PEOPLE, THEY BELIEVE IN
EXCLUDING PEOPLE. WE THINK THAT AS MANY PEOPLE AS
POSSIBLE SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE PROCESS OF NATION BUILDING.
/// END ACT ///
WHATEVER DOCUMENT EMERGES FROM THE CONVENTION, IT IS ALSO CLEAR
FROM GOVERNMENT SOURCES THE MILITARY HAS NO INTENTION OF GIVING A
ROLE TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI.
ONE PROVISION IN THE DRAFT, RESURRECTED FROM THE 1948 CONSTITUTION,
BARS ANYONE FROM OFFICE WHO HAS FOREIGN OBLIGATIONS. THIS EXPLAINS THE
GOVERNMENT'S
CONTINUAL BARRAGE OF CRITICISM IN THE OFFICIAL MEDIA OF AUNG SAN
SUU KYI'S PERSONAL LIFE. SHE IS MARRIED TO A BRITISH CITIZEN.
Metta, thank you, peace, happiness and long life,
Dawn Star (Paris) <cd@xxxxxxx>
Burmanet / TOTAL Coordinator
Euro-Burmanet (Paris, France)
Free Burma Coalition
http://wicip.org/fbc/
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/asia/euro-burma/
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Belgium
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Headline: VOA on Burma's PR Image problem - really bad 9/9/96
Keywords: NLD ban, National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu
Kyi, human rights, political prisoners, torture, murder, execution,
rape, Slorc abuses, forced labor, forced relocation, VOA-Gary Thomas,
tourism, Tourist Boycott, Gen Kyaw Ba,
Date: 9 sept 1996
Source: BNN,FBC,
Section: ebn
Rubrique: tb
RANGOON -- FOR ALL THE CURRENT WORLD ATTENTION, BURMA HAS NOT BEEN A
SPOT HIGH ON THE LIST OF TOURIST DESTINATIONS, FEW FOREIGN
VISITORS HAVE COME HERE. BUT TIMES HAVE CHANGED. IN NOVEMBER,
BURMA WILL KICK OFF A YEAR-LONG PROMOTION TO LURE FOREIGN TOURIST
TO THE COUNTRY.
RANGOON, BURMA FACES A SEVERE IMAGE PROBLEM
ABROAD.
HAD BURMA NOT LIVED IN SUCH INTERNATIONAL ISOLATION FOR SO LONG
THE GREAT SHAWE DAGON PAGODA IN RANGOON MIGHT WELL RIVAL INDIA'S
TAJ MAHAL AS A TOURIST SPOT. THE GOLDEN DOME OF THE
26-HUNDRED-YEAR OLD BUDDHIST SHRINE, WHICH CONTAINS RELICS OF THE
BUDDHA, TOWERS NEARLY 100-METERS OVER A VAST PARK OF TROPICAL
FOLIAGE, LIKE A GIANT SHINING VAIL RISING OUT OF THE JUNGLE.
BURMA BILLS ITSELF AS THE GOLDEN LAND BECAUSE OF THE VAST ARRAY
OF EXQUISITE GOLDEN PAGODAS AND TEMPLES THAT DOT ITS LANDSCAPE.
BURMA HAS PRISTINE BEACHES, STUNNING MOUNTAIN VISTAS, AND ANCIENT
ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES. THE AIR IS CLEAN AND A BANGKOK RESIDENT
WOULD LAUGH AT WHAT IS CALLED A TRAFFIC JAM IN RANGOON. IT IS IN
FACT VIRGIN TERRITORY FOR THE TRAVEL AND TOURISM INDUSTRY.
MILLIONS OF POTENTIAL DOLLARS RIDE ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THE
GOLD OF ANCIENT PAGODAS WILL BE OVERSHADOWED BY THE GREEN OF ARMY
UNIFORMS.
THE GOVERNMENT IS PLANNING TO INAUGURATE "VISIT MYANMAR YEAR" IN
NOVEMBER. MYANMAR IS THE GOVERNMENT'S NAME FOR BURMA. IT IS
HOPING TO ATTRACT FOREIGN CURRENCY FROM TOURISTS, PARTICULARLY
THOSE FROM ASIA. THE GOVERNMENT IS ALSO TRYING TO CONVINCE
FOREIGN COMPANIES IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY THAT BURMA IS THE PLACE
TO INVEST.
BUT INDEPENDENT ANALYST SAY THAT COULD BE AN UPHILL BATTLE FOR
THE GOVERNMENT. BURMA'S IMAGE ABROAD, PARTICULARLY IN THE WEST,
IS A TARNISHED BECAUSE OF THE COUNTRY'S POOR HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD.
MOREOVER, THE GOVERNMENT'S NEMESIS, DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST AUNG SAN
SUU KYI, HAS CALLED FOR AN ECONOMIC BOYCOTT OF BURMA AND IS
ASKING TOURISTS AND THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY TO BOYCOTT "VISIT MYANMAR".
IN AN INTERVIEW, A MINISTER FOR HOTELS AND TOURISM AND A MEMBER
OF THE RULING STATE LAW AND ORDER RESTORATION COUNCIL, GENERAL
KYAW BA, DISMISSES THE IMPACT OF A BOYCOTT.
HE SAYS TOURIST REVENUES WERE 80-MILLION DOLLARS LAST YEAR AND
PREDICTS THEY WILL TOP 100-MILLION DOLLARS THIS YEAR, WITH THE
LARGEST NUMBER OF TOURISTS COMING FROM JAPAN. BUT SOME
DIPLOMATIC ANALYSTS SAY THOSE FIGURES MAY BE EXAGGERATED.
IN ADDITION TO THE IMAGE QUESTION, BURMA ALSO FACES SEVERE
SHORT-COMINGS IN WHAT ECONOMISTS CALL INFRA-STRUCTURE.
WESTERN-STYLE HOTELS ARE FEW, THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM AND THE
ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY -- ESPECIALLY OUTSIDE RANGOON -- ARE OFTEN
UNRELIABLE. ROADS ARE OF UN-EVEN QUALITY AND DINING CHOICES ARE
LIMITED.
GENERAL KYAW BA SAYS IMPROVEMENTS ARE BEING MADE TO IMPROVE
FACILITIES. SOME NEW HOTELS ARE GOING UP AND THE HISTORIC
RANGOON HOTEL, THE STRAND, UNDERWENT A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR
RENOVATION, ALTHOUGH ITS 300-DOLLAR A NIGHT ROOMS PUT IT OUT OF
THE REACH OF MOST TRAVELERS.
GENERAL KYAW BA SAYS HOTEL GROUPS FROM SINGAPORE, THAILAND,
MALAYSIA, AND HONG KONG ARE PLANNING TO BUILD HOTELS IN BURMA.
HE SAYS ONE-FOURTH OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN BURMA IS IN THE HOTEL
INDUSTRY. BUT ANALYSTS SAY IF OCCUPANCY RATES OF EXISTING
FACILITIES ARE LOW, POTENTIAL INVESTORS COULD BE SCARED OFF.
Metta, thank you, peace, happiness and long life,
Dawn Star (Paris) <cd@xxxxxxx>
Burmanet / TOTAL Coordinator
Euro-Burmanet (Paris, France)
Free Burma Coalition
http://wicip.org/fbc/
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/asia/euro-burma/
Your pass into the following sites, and much more.
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/asia/euro-burma/nld/
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/asia/euro-burma/daask/
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/asia/euro-burma/total
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/asia/euro-burma/pepsi/
Help support our effort. Write now, to :
Mrs. Emma BONINO
EC HUMANITARIAN OFFICE
The European Commission
Directorate General 1B
External Relations
(Directorate 1B, D, Division 3)
Rue de la Lois/Westraat 200
B-1049 Brussels
Belgium
Fax:32-2-299-1047
Join the Free Burma Coalition. Call 608-256-6572 or email:
zni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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TOTAL WORLDWIDE BOYCOTT TOTAL WORLDWIDE BOYCOTT TOTAL WORLDWIDE BOYCOTT
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Help support the TOTAL WORLDWIDE BOYCOTT by donating funds to
EURO-BURMANET: Email cd@xxxxxxx
Send letters and cut-up UNOCAL / TEXACO / ARCO / TOTAL charge cards to:
Roger Beach, CEO
Unocal Corporation
2141 Rosecrans Blvd., Suite 4000 / El
Segundo, CA 90245
Tel: 310-726-7600
Gary Jones, CEO
Total North America
Total Tower, 900 19th Street
Denver,
CO 80202
Tel: 303-291-2000
Send your letters now :
TOTAL SA
Thierry Desmarest, CEO, President of Exploration and Production,
HQ: 24 Cours Michelet 92800 Puteaux France
Tel: 33-1-41-35-40-00 Fax: 33-1-41-35-64-65
E-mail :
Paris France, : <hourcard@xxxxxxxxx>
New York City <TOTALNYC@xxxxxxx> , <roberth@xxxxxxxxx>
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