Posted on 06/19/2004 7:50:08 PM PDT by wagglebee
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:16:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
YANGOON, Myanmar, Jun. 19 (UPI) -- Pro-democracy activists in Myanmar marked the 59th birthday of opposition leader Aun San Suu Kyi with demonstrations in the capital, Yangoon.
Hundreds of demonstrators went to the headquarters of her National League for Democracy where monks offered prayers and party representatives called for her release, the BBC reported.
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It's almost (but not quite) as bad as when Peking became Beijing during the Carter administration.
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