NLD's Education Forum
The National League for Democracy (NLD) hosted a day-long education forum in Ran-
goon last Monday (21 August). Nearly 200 NLD members and supporters met to discuss
the state of education in Burma. A group of 14 foreign participants also joined the Fo-
rum who were academic, journalists, youth workers, students activists and NGO repre-
sentatives from Australia, Canada, Indonesia,
Ireland
, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway,
South Africa, Thailand and USA.
The Forum took up the entire day's activities of the NLD and included six parallel work-
shops on:
- education as a human rights, the social function of education
- development issues related to lack of education, current alternatives for those who
want education
- student and youth activism in the face of oppression
- student political prisoners and repressive tactics of the junta
- the truth about the recent re-openings of universities and colleges by the junta
- what is needed in terms of education in terms of reconstruction of Burma
- what can international activists and the international community can do to help.
NLD General Secretary Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was co-facilitator of the Forum.
Friday, 24 August 2000
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