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- Subject: Nobel Peace prize winners to visit Thailand
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- RTw 01/23 0302 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS TO VISIT THAILAND
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- BANGKOK, Jan 23, Reuter - A group of Nobel Peace Prize recipients will
- visit Thailand next month to press the Rangoon government into releasing Burmese
- dissident and fellow prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, a statement said on
- Saturday.
- The group will travel with staff of the Montreal-based International Centre
- for Human Rights and Democratic Development. It will arrive in Bangkok on
- February 16 for five days, the centre said in a statement.
- The Peace Prize laureates are former Costa Rican president Oscar Arias,
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Corrigan-Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esquivel.
- They plan to meet Thai officials to express concerns over human rights
- violations in Burma. They will also visit a Thai town on Burma's border to
- interview refugees.
- The group wanted to travel to Rangoon to meet Suu Kyi, but anticipated the
- Burmese military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC),
- would reject the request, the statement said.
- It did not say whether the group would pursue a meeting with Suu Kyi while
- in Bangkok. She was awarded the Peace Prize in 1991 for opposing the SLORC.
- Her National League for Democracy won Burma's May 1990 general election by
- a landslide, but the SLORC arrested most of its leaders and refused to handover
- power.
- Suu Kyi, 47, has been under house arrest in Rangoon since July 1989. Her
- husband and the Nobel Institute in Oslo issued a statement last November saying
- her life has been under grave threat.
- The SLORC has said it will not release her unless she promises to give up
- politics and leave Burma.
- REUTER SUT JLW JB
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