Word: madan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Madan said she was inspired to join the protest by the detention of 18 people in Rangoon for distributing prodemocracyleaflets last August, an event that madeinternational headlines. The students wereoriginally sentenced to a five-year prison termbut were instead deported after pressure fromother countries. Two of the people arrested inRangoon also participated in the D.C. protest...
...Madan was not involved in any student humanrights organization that also support the FreeBurma movement while at Harvard. She becameinterested in the movement when she began workingfor the UUSG, she said...
...Madan said that hearing the stories of studentactivists in Burma also moved...
...felt like the action that I was about totake was nothing compared t what Madan said. "Iwant to make a difference here...
...Madan's trial date is set for December 8.Supporters of the demonstration hope that thepunishments will be lenient...