Bangkok - Burmese dissidents in exile vowed to keep up their struggle for democracy yesterday even though an uprising they forecast this week failed to materialise. "Although the particularly tight security measures imposed by the military at this time create additional challenges, the democracy movement vows to continue our struggle against the illegitimate regime," the All-Burma Students' Democratic Front said. "We will continue to launch actions until the emergence of a countrywide popular democracy movement."
Burma's military dictatorship instituted a security clampdown to prevent the uprising called for Thursday.