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Roco:Back Suu Kyi's bid for a free Burma
By BUTCH FERNANDEZ
Jan. 6, 1997 TODAY daily newspaper (Philippines)

Sen. Raul Roco pressed the Senate yesterday to declare its support
for Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi in her fight for democracy
against the ruling military junta in Burma.

Roco said this should be one of the New Year resolutions the 24-man
chamber should pass when Congress starts regular sessions on
January 20.

Roco earlier filed Resolution 448 and a supplementary resolution
expressing support for Suu Kyi, which the Senate has yet to act
upon.

He pressed for early passage of the resolution and expressed hopes
that other democratic governments would do the same amid recent
reports of increasing repression against Suu Kyi and her followers
in the Burmese capital.

Roco said reports that the Burmese junta recently required Suu Kyi
to inform it of her movements and her visitors "blackened Myanmar's
[the junta's new name for Burma] image before the international
community."

It was also reported that the junta barred journalists from meeting
with Suu Kyi at her home, adding that if they wanted to, they can
meet her elsewhere - a condition that human rights advocates found
ridiculous, since Suu Kyi has been under virtual house arrest since
student protests rocked the capital, Rangoon.

"As a nation, we are proud and zealous of our freedoms and
democratic system in this part of the world," Roco said the
manifestation of support from other countries is important to Suu
Kyi and her National League for Democracy, as it was with freedom-
loving Filipinos who resisted and successfully toppled the Marcos
dictatorship.

"When Filipinos were fighting repression under martial law, our
resolve would be strengthened upon news of support by other
freedom-loving peoples [and it is the same for Suu Kyi and her
followers now," said Roco.


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