According to the NED Annual Report for 1995, the following are
details of US Government funds, allocated by the US Congress and dispersed by
the NED:
Associates to Develop Democratic Burma $30,000
To continue to publish and distribute Burma Alert, a monthly international newsletter about the democracy movement; and to maintain a Burma archive/data center to assist the Burmese democracy movement.
To continue to publish and distribute Burma Alert, a monthly international newsletter about the democracy movement; and to maintain a Burma archive/data center to assist the Burmese democracy movement.
Human Rights for the People of Burma $115,000
To support the daily broadcast of the "Democratic Voice of Burma" radio program, which is taped in Bangkok and the border areas of Burma and broadcast over shortwave from Oslo, Norway.
To support the daily broadcast of the "Democratic Voice of Burma" radio program, which is taped in Bangkok and the border areas of Burma and broadcast over shortwave from Oslo, Norway.
International Republican Institute $110,000
To provide assistance to the Burmese prodemocracy movement in its efforts to pressure the military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), to restore democracy in Burma, including support for the Political Defiance Committee, an umbrella organization of 12 ethnic and prodemocracy groups devoted to training Burmese in promoting democratization through nonviolent political action, and for the National League for Democracy/Liberated Areas--Thailand border and western border.
To provide assistance to the Burmese prodemocracy movement in its efforts to pressure the military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), to restore democracy in Burma, including support for the Political Defiance Committee, an umbrella organization of 12 ethnic and prodemocracy groups devoted to training Burmese in promoting democratization through nonviolent political action, and for the National League for Democracy/Liberated Areas--Thailand border and western border.
National Coalition for Democracy $50,000
To enable the exiled Burmese elected representatives, the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), to increase pressure on the SLORC to respond to Aung San Suu Kyi's offer of a political dialogue; to advocate measures to strengthen the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights for Burma; and to support the National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB), a coalition of Burma's prodemocracy political parties and ethnic groups, in its efforts to promote solidarity in the liberated and cease-fire areas along Burma's borders.
To enable the exiled Burmese elected representatives, the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), to increase pressure on the SLORC to respond to Aung San Suu Kyi's offer of a political dialogue; to advocate measures to strengthen the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights for Burma; and to support the National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB), a coalition of Burma's prodemocracy political parties and ethnic groups, in its efforts to promote solidarity in the liberated and cease-fire areas along Burma's borders.
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The New Era Journal $20,000
To support continued publication of this bimonthly Burmese-language newspaper that provides an alternative source of printed news and information to Burmese living under the SLORC military junta.
Nonviolence International $50,000
To conduct an intensive training program on the India-Burma border to promote the theory of nonviolent political action and to train activists how to enlist support for the democratic cause while operating under difficult conditions; and to provide support for the ongoing activities of the newly established western border component of the Political Defiance Committee. |
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