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Wear Yellow, Urges ABSDF



Media Release
Date: August 8, 1998

ABSDF Urges Burmese To Wear Yellow 

The All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF) today urges the
Burmese people and sympathisers from the international community
to wear yellow clothes and carry yellow coloured objects as
symbol of  support for the pro-democracy movement in Burma. 

The call is being made in commemoration of the tenth anniversary
of the (8888) democratic popular uprising in the country.

The ABSDF also calls on the Burmese people to lend support to Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) in
their call for the convening of parliament by August 21. 

ABSDF Foreign Affairs Secretary, Aung Naing Oo, said, " Yellow a
is a traditional symbol of democracy in Burma. It symbolises
unity among us and encouragement to each other." 

"Wearing yellow clothes is a low risk action. It is very easy for
everyone to participate in such action as they carry a minimum
risk. The military therefore will find it very difficult to stop
such activities."

All Burma students' Democratic Front (ABSDF)

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