21.   A brief demonstration by Burmese students outside the conference venue failed to make much of an impact.

22.   Authorities in Thailand have burned down a jungle camp housing Burmese trade unionists and relocated the residents, an exiled Burmese student organisation said Monday.

23.   Burmese dissident students claimed that at least one of those killed in the ambush was a Frenchman.

24.   Burmese troops are however currently battling with Karen insurgents -- the oldest and most powerful ethnic rebellion -- and their allied Burmese students in eastern jungles.

25.   Burmese students will peacefully converge on Buddhist shrines in Burma on Tuesday to say collective prayers for the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

26.   But Manerplaw was the headquarters of Burmese dissident student groups as well as the KNU, and its loss undoubtedly would deal a severe blow to both movements.

27.   Ethnic Karen rebels were ordered to pull out of Manerplaw Friday as Burmese troops advanced on their headquarters, Karen and Burmese dissident student sources said.

28.   Many of the dozens of Burmese student activist groups in Bangkok have claimed to be unfairly targetted as trouble makers by Thai authorities.