BURMA PRESS
SUMMARY
From the Rangoon "The New Light of Myanmar"
Compiled for the Burma Studies Group by Hugh C. MacDougall
Published by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of
Illinois
Volume X, No. 2, February 1996
NATIONAL CONVENTION
Committee Meetings
Rallies for Convention
NATIONAL CONVENTION
Committee
Meetings
Panels of Chairmen from delegates groups met
to discuss the chapters on Legislature and the Executive [no mention of
Judiciary], and to coordinate with leaders of paper compilation groups:
Jan. 31: Workers (NLM 2/1)
Feb. 1: Workers; Political parties; National
races. (NLM 2/2)
Feb. 2: State service personnel. (NLM 2/ 3)
Feb. 5: Workers; Intellectuals and
intelligentsia; Political parties. (NLM 2/6)
Feb. 6: Other invited persons; Political
parties; National races. (NLM 2/7)
Feb. 7: Other invited persons. (NLM 2/8)
Feb. 8: Other invited persons;
Representatives-elect. (NLM 2/9)
Feb. 9: Intellectuals and intelligentsia; Other invited persons. (NLM 2/10)
Feb. 13: State service personnel; Other invited persons; National races. (NLM 2/14)
Feb. 14: State service personnel. (NLM 2/15)
Feb. 19: National races. (NLM 2/20)
Feb. 20: State service personnel; Political
parties; Representatives-elect; National races. (NLM 2/21)
Feb. 21: Peasants; Intellectuals and
intelligentsia; Representatives-elect. (NLM 2/22)
Feb. 22: State service personnel; Political
parties. (NLM 2/23)
Feb. 23: Representatives-elect met with
delegates of the National Unity Party. (NLM 2/24)
Rallies for Convention
During the month, mass rallies supporting the
National Convention continued, passing "unanimous" resolutions
endorsing the Convention:
Feb. 3: 5,000 in
Feb. 25: 25,000 in Sittway,