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BBC-Burmese police break up anti-go
- Subject: BBC-Burmese police break up anti-go
- From: kyawkyaw@xxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 02:29:00
World: Asia-Pacific
Burmese police break up
anti-government protest
Riot police have broken up a pro-democracy
demonstration in the centre of the Burmese capital,
Rangoon.
They dispersed over two hundred protestors who had
shouted anti-government slogans and distributed
pro-democracy leaflets at a traffic intersection near
Rangoon University.
The protest, which ended peacefully, was the first street
demonstration against military rule in Burma for nearly
two years.
It occurred amid rising concern for the health of Burmese
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is spending a
thirteenth day in a van near the capital in protest against
travel restrictions imposed on her by the military
authorities.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service