>Subject: BBC-Burmese pro-democracy

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>From: "TIN KYI" <tinkyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <burmanet2-l@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: BBC-Burmese pro-democracy leader calls for sanctions 
>Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 02:05:21 +0900
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>Tuesday, September 7, 1999 Published at 12:38 GMT 13:38 UK
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>BBC-World: Asia-Pacific
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>Burmese pro-democracy leader calls for sanctions
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>The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has made another appeal
>for international action against the military government.
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>In a video-recorded statement smuggled out of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi
>describes the country as a huge prison and calls on the European Union, the
>United States and the rest of the world to help the cause of democracy by
>imposing economic sanctions.
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>Her statement comes just days before the ninth of September, the date on
>which pro-democracy campaigners outside Burma have called for an uprising
>against the authorities.
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>>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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