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Dissidents marked Burma's Human Rights Day in New Delhi

New Delhi, March 13, 2000
Mizzima News Group

About 30 students and youth from Burma held a protest rally in New Delhi
today to mark Burma's Human Rights Day. During the demonstration, which
lasted for an hour, the protestors gathered at Jantar Mantar and staged
a peaceful procession towards India's Parliament. As Delhi police
stopped them nearby Parliament Police Station, the demonstrators held a
sit-in-protest in front of the Parliament police station, shouting
slogans against the military junta in Burma.

March 13 is marked by democracy activists inside and outside the country
as Burma's Human Rights Day.  On that day of last twelve years, two
students from prestigious Rangoon Institute of Technology, namely Ko
Phone Maw and Ko Soe Naing were killed by the security forces. The
killing, which was initially denied but later acknowledged by the
government, sparked the anger of students and youth and in a short
period it generated into the countrywide demonstrations against the
government in 1988.

In a memorandum submitted to the Burmese embassy in New Delhi, the
activists urged the ruling military government to release all political
prisoners in Burma and to solve the country's political problems by
peaceful and political means.