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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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