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South China Morning Post
Thursday, September 9, 1999

BURMA

British woman questioned after anti-Junta protest
REUTERS
A British woman arrested for staging an anti-junta protest in Rangoon was
being questioned by Burmese police yesterday, the British Embassy said.
Human rights worker Rachel Goldwyn, 28, was detained on Tuesday after tying
her hand to a lamp-post at a road junction and shouting pro-democracy
slogans.

In a statement released by the All Burma Students' Democratic Front, a
dissident group in exile, Ms Goldwyn said she had made her protest against
human rights abuses and in solidarity with the dissidents' call for a
national uprising today.

She called on Britain to enact unilateral economic sanctions against Burma
and criticised British firms doing business there.

She said her concern about Burmese rights was ignited when she worked in a
refugee camp on the Thai-Burmese border.

"I saw people who had been forced off their land into concentration camps,
people who had been tortured . . . women who had been raped and landmine
victims," she said.

Her detention came a week after British rights protester James Mawdsley was
jailed for 17 years. British Embassy officials said yesterday they were
trying to gain access to both Britons.