June 19, 2002

To participate in the Global Day of Action against the Burmese junta and in celebration of Women of Burma Day, which coincides with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday, more than 30 activists from 12 Thai, Burmese, and international organizations converged at the Chinese and Indian Embassies. In a letter addressed the President and Prime Minister respectively, they appealed for the government to reconsider its policy towards Burma to actively encourage national reconciliation and democratisation.

They called on them specifically to:

1. Put pressure on the SPDC to immediately release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, U Tin Oo and all political prisoners in Burma and to conduct an independent investigation into the May 30 attack and bring those responsible to justice;
2. Stop selling arms and military hardware to the SPDC, which flames the civil war;
3. Support Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy movement in Burma;
4. Suspend business relations with the SPDC; and
5. Support and honor the results of the 1990 democratic elections.

A Seminar; "Daw Aung San Su Kyi Under Crisis; Democracy in Burma" organized by Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma took place at Student Christian Centre in Bangkok. A Thai Senator, Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee of Senate Dr. Krisak Chunarvon, Mr. Kiatchai Pongpanich Senior Editor of Kao Sod news paper , Mr Kavi Chongkittavorn, Assistant editor of the Nation Multimedia Group, Mr. Bo Thaung, Elected Member of Parliament in 1990 election in Burma, the secretariat member of National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB) were panels in the Seminar.

Simultaneously:

At the Burmese Embassy more than 200 Burmese activists, exiles, refugees protested against the ongoing crackdown on the democratic movement in Burma and held a ceremony to commemorate Daw Suu's 58th birthday.

Nine Burmese continued a hunger strike that began June 17 in front of the Burmese Embassy and was moved to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

Signatory Organizations to the letter to the Indian and Chinese Embassies:

• National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma - East Asia Office
• Members of Parliament Union
• Democratic Party for a New Society
• All Burma Students Democratic Front
• Network for Democracy and Development
• National League for Democracy (Liberated Areas)
• All Burma Federation of Student Unions - Foreign Affairs Committee
• Assistance Association for Political Prisoners - Burma
• Alternative Asean Network on Burma (Altsean)
• Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma
• Student Federation of Thailand