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NLD holds human rights and AIDS awareness training
Min Thu
Mizzima News
29 March 2006

Burma’s leading opposition party, the National League for Democracy has
launched the first human rights and AIDS awareness training scheme at its
headquarters in Rangoon.

The three-day training, which started today, will be attended by 96
trainees as part of the NLD’s development program.

The trainees were selected by NLD offices across Burma and party spokesman
Myint Thein told Mizzima the course was designed to promote awareness of
people’s rights and to help combat the spread of AIDS.

“All the people should know about the human rights. What is the human
rights, which rights should we deserve, which rights are being violated,
we should know all about these. Since the human rights coexist with
democracy, we can strive for democracy only if we know about human
rights,” Myint Thein said.

Myint Thein also said since between 500,000 and one million Burmese people
were thought to suffer from AIDS, it was important to improve people’s
understanding of the disease.

Six of the NLD’s elected members of parliament will lecture trainees on
human rights and a team of six doctors will conduct the AIDS awareness
training.

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