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AFP : Protest at Myanmar embassy in



Protest at Myanmar embassy in Bangkok in seventh day
Tue 11 Aug 98 - 10:46 GMT 

BANGKOK, Aug 11 (AFP) - A streetside protest by some 50 exiled students
from Myanmar entered its seventh day Tuesday outside Yangon's embassy here.

Police have urged the group to move but said they would not use force.

The number of demonstrators had fallen from 60 a day earlier and some 250
on Saturday, the 10th anniversary of a military crackdown on pro-democracy
protestors in Yangon which left thousands dead by some accounts, according
to a police officer based near the embassy.

Exiled pro-democracy groups have called for a mass campaign of civil
disobedience in Myanmar and warned of confrontation if the junta does not
convene parliament by August 21, a deadline set by the leading National
League for Democracy (NLD) opposition party.

The NLD, led by Nobel prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won 1990 elections
by a landslide but the junta has refused to relinquish power.

The protestors in Bangkok said they would remain outside the embassy until
parliament was convened and some pledged to launch hunger strikes if the
August 21 deadline wasn't met.