Over One Million U.S. Dollar Spends (r)

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At 12:31 AM 2/25/98, you wrote:
>1996 Budget for Burma Reported by National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
>1. Albert Einstein Institution 
>$60,000
>Providing consolations, intensive courses, and publications on strategic
>nonviolent struggle to a range of Burmese pro-democracy groups, including
>several ethnic and student organizations.
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>2. Associates to Develop Democratic Burma
>$40,000
>To publish Burma Alert, an eight page monthly international newsletter about
>the democracy movements in Burma with a circulation of 5,000; to maintain and
>archive for materials on Burma's democracy movements; and to manage the Burma
>Donors Secretariat, which coordinates the work of organizations with the
>projects in the region.
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>3. Center for International Private Enterprise 
>$106,295 (NED+State Department Funds)
>Enabling the Associates to Develop Democratic Burma (EADDB) to serve as a
>coordinating center where Burmese and international economists research,
>debate, and draft economic development and liberalization strategies that can
>be implemented once political openings occur.
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>4. Free Trade Union Institute 
>$400,000 (State Dept. Funds)
>For the Asian American Free Labor Institute to enable Burma's exiled labor
>movements, the Federation of Trade Unions of Burma to carry out education
>programs on labor rights and democracy and to offers its well-established
>infrastructure to assist the efforts the National Coalition Government of
>Union of Burma (NCGUB), the All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF), and
>other pro-democracy groups. 
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>5. Human Rights for the People of Burma 
>$115,000
>In collaboration with the NCGUB and the Norwegian Burma Council, to continue
>the democratic vice of Burma (DVB) radio broadcast, which airs world news,
>information on the Burmese democracy movements, and ethnic language
>programming in Burma, India, and Thailand twice daily.
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>6. International Republican Institute 
>$120,000
>To assist National League for Democracy-Liberated Areas (NLD-LA) in
>reconstituting its organization and leadership structure within SLORC now know
>as SPDC controlled Burma, and to allow the Political Defiance Committee to
>train Burmese to oppose human and civil rights abuses nonviolently.
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>7. National Coalition for Democracy 
>$55,000
>To enable the NCGUB to promote increased international pressure response to
>Aung San Suu Kyi's offer of political dialogue, including testifying before
>the UN Commission for Human Rights in Feb. 1997 and advocating a strengthened
>mandate for the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights. 
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>8. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs 
>$247,786
>For a fix month program to enhance the advocacy skills of local democrats and
>further their massage internationally, develop Burmese democracy support
>network in Asia, and encourage greater dialogue and cooperation among Burmese
>democratic forces. 
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>9. New Era Journal
>$36,000
>For a newspaper published by exile journalists and editors and smuggle into
>the country: New Era Journal provides extensive and accurate information about
>current conditions in Burma, the democracy movement, and complete texts of
>speeches and policy statements by democracy activists. 
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>Nonviolent International 
>$70,000
>Conducting workshops in strategic nonviolence for Burmese Political Defiance
>Committee in Thailand and India-based Committee for Nonviolent Action in Burma
>(CNAB), and awarding subgrants to Democratic Party for a New Society and CNAB
>for democratic organizing and expending information networks into and outside
>on Burma.
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>Total Expenditure of 1996 Burma's democratization  
>$ 1,250,081   
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>Note: This report claims nothing more than its original report.
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