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...were there protesting the people occupying the embassy," said Madan, an employee of the UUSC. "The demonstration in D.C. was to express our solidarity with [Burmese student activists] in their struggle...
...Madan attended the protest as a representative of the UUSC...
...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...