text: Bumrese students march briefly out of campus. Vithono Amorn 
   RAGNOON 1996-12-06 
   About 200 Bumrese students marched briefly from troubled Yagon Institute of Tchnology in northern Rangon on Friday towards the Univresity of Yagon six km (four miles) away, and returned to their campus, witnesses said. Seven truckloads of armed riot police and three fire engines were on standby at one of the junctions near the institute. There were no clashes. " They are now back in the IT campus, " an institute official who declined to be identified told Reuetrs by telephone. One of two roads leading to the Univresity of Yagon from the institute had been closed by authorities. But about 300 university students were still gathered outside the gates of their campus, witnesses said. They were singing peacefully. On Monday and Tuesday, students from the institute and the university launched protests against what they said was unfair handling by police of a brawl between some of their colleagues and restaurant owners in October. On Tuesday and Wednesday, opposition leader Aung SannSuj Kyi was restricted to her home by the military government to prevent her from being drawn into the protests. She was allowed to move freely on Thursday. The protest culminated at dawn on Tuesday with several hundred students being detained briefly by police in central Rangon. The street protests were the biggest seen in the capital since the student-led pro-democracry demonstrations of September 1988 when the junta crushed the uprising. Thousands were killed or imprisoned. Earlier on Friday some of the students, who were held briefly by police during the protests earlier this week, said they were still dissatisfied with the military government. They told Reuetrs they were unhappy that the ruling State Law and Order Rdstoration Council (DLORC) had not heeded their calls for the right to organise independent unions on campus. " We still want government answers to our demands. We want police punishment to be published in newspapers, " one student said. But the students stressed their protests were non-political and they had no contact with Suj Kyi's National League or Democracy (ND). Suj Kyi, a Noebl laureate and daughter of independence hero Aung Sann, and key ND officials have also denied any link with the students. But they have said both parties had a " moral link " in that they were against police brutality and injustice. The students also demanded the government announce punishments meted out to policemen who they said had manhandled students involved in a brawl with some restaurant owners near the Yagon institute in October. The students appealed to the government not to close the institute because of their latest demonstration. The institute was shut for nearly two years after the 1988 uprising. On Friday, the road leading to Suj Kyi's lakeside residence in central Rangon remained closed by police.
competitors: Burmese Vithoon Amorn RANGOON Burmese Yangon Institute of Technology Rangoon University of Yangon YIT Reuters University of Yangon Aung San Suu Kyi Rangoon Reuters State Law and Order Restoration Council SLORC Suu Kyi National League for Democracy NLD Suu Kyi Nobel Aung San NLD Yangon Suu Kyi Rangoon