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...Kyaw Nyein, leader of the Socialists who are Burma's biggest political party, said: "We are so disrupted that 300 armed men can take any place except Rangoon itself. In the last two years there is scarcely a town in Burma which has not been seized at least once by rebels of some sort...
...Karen question might have been settled peaceably last year if both sides had shown a little more trust, cooperation and coolheadedness. "The trouble with us," said Socialist U Kyaw Nyein (who became a cabinet minister at 32), "is that we are all young and inexperienced." Finance Secretary U Kyin echoed him: "We are free but we don't yet know how to rule ourselves...
...leprosarium authorities, leper leader Maung Kyaw Thu laid down demands to be met "immediately": 1) improve the wretched diet; 2) reduce working hours of inmates (now six hours daily); 3) step up injection treatments of chaulmoogra oil to the prewar level...