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Subject: Suu Kyi wants Australia to broadcast news to Burma.
Nobel Winner wants Australia to broadcast news to Burma
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February 21, 1997
9.16 a.m. EST (1416 GMT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung
San Suu Kyi
wants Australia to broadcast news to Burmese in their native
language so they
can hear uncensored news from the outside world.
Burma's military regime controls the news media and Burmese
depend on
foreign broadcasts to receive independent news, said Suu
Kyi's husband,
Michael Aris, who accepted an honorary doctorate on her
behalf from Sydney
University of Technology.
"With its proximity to Burma and with the increasing numbers
of Burmese on
its soil, we hope that Australia will recognize the need for
disseminating
information in the Burmese language,'' Aris said in comments
carried today on
National Radio.
The speech was prepared by his wife, who received the 1991
Nobel Peace
Prize for her peaceful campaign for democracy in Burma.
[FoxNews, 21 Feb 1997].
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