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...chair of the All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF) urged students to take action against the oppressive military regime in Burma last night, speaking before an audience of 50 in Emerson Hall...
Prior to the address by Moe Thee Zun, who was also the organizer of the 1988 student uprising in Rangoon, 12 student-activists burned Heineken packages and poured Pepsi into a trash can in front of Widener Library to protest those companies' investments in Burma...
...people of Burma have had to live under a military regime for over 30 years," Zun said. "We have to find a way so that we can liberate our people from oppression...
Following the address, the event's organizers, Adam K. Richards '96 and Marco B. Simons '97, described the Burma Action Group as a new student organization which plans to hold demonstrations and urge the University to boycott companies with operations in Burma...
...speech, Zun detailed political conditions in Burma, explaining he and other student-activists were forced into hiding by the Burmese government after they organized pro-democracy demonstrations...