Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)
New Delhi, June 12, 2003:

Burmese pro-democracy activists in India offered food to the Buddhist
monks for dedication to the people who were killed brutally by thugs
backed by the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) in Burma
on 30 May at a Buddhist monastery in New Delhi this morning. Hindus and
Christians joined into the prayers.

U Pyinnyawara, abbot of the monastery, gave the Five Percepts to the
Buddhist guests.

At the function, U Pyinnyawara said: "The SPDC always says that they
have been working for stability and peace in Burma but the SPDC-backed
terrorists' attack on 30 May means that the SPDC themselves broke their
word. It was very very sad. As long as SPDC is ruling in Burma, the same
sad events will continue in future. After the 8.8.88 movement
(nation-wide uprising in Burma on August 8, 1988) was brutally cracked down by
the SPDC, this was the second massacre".

During the function, Dr. Tint Swe, Minister of South East Asia Affairs
of the exiled NCGUB, stated: "After analyzing our present political
situation in Burma, we all, including non-organization members, are united
in fighting against the SPDC. Now we have to send Burma's current news
to the media as well as to lobby Indians and India's Members of
Parliament regarding the situation in Burma. In particular, we have to lobby
the Government of India to change its views on policy regarding Burma."

U Tha Noe, Member of Parliament for Yathataung Township, Arakan State,
added: "The SPDC's attack means that the SPDC planned to make violent
attacks in the Arakan State, Chin State, Kachin State. The SPDC planned
those attacks because they feared that the people would show support to
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi during her trips again and again. Recently, Daw
Suu extended the Committee for Representing the People's Parliament
(CRPP). If Daw Suu had dismantled the CRPP, the SPDC had offered to free all
political prisoners but Daw Suu disagreed with their offer. Moreover as
she has been trying to convene the People's Assembly in Burma, the SPDC
brutally attacked her and her convoy".

Rev. Pyinnyawara stated: "All pro-democracy activists should organize
at once and should fight against the SPDC from today. The international
governments can merely express their regret on Burma's situation. The
SPDC has never cared for the UN and the international community, and
they planned this brutal attack. Therefore, all Burmese citizens should
participate in fighting the dictatorship and restoring democracy in
Burma".