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- From: brelief@xxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 05:20:00
BANGKOK POST March 31, 1998
In brief
Burmese monks have vowed to take nationwide strike action over
alleged persecution and harassment at the hands of the ruling junta.
The All-Burma Young Monks Union said yesterday 20,000 monks
had been barred from participation in state-run monastic exams
and are protesting against strict military supervision of the monkhood.
Monks have called on students and ethnic forces in Burma as well
as "democratic forces abroad "to support the strike,which was to
begin yesterday unless the junta stopped its harassment of examinees.
-AFP
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