Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/. L.Odonchimed, L.Gundalai and D.Odbayar, the
Ministers of Health, of Social Welfare and Labor, and of Justice and
Internal Affairs, met Wednesday the hunger-strikers on the Sukhbaatar
Square. The hunger-strikers--former stallholders of the SAPU trade
center which literally disappeared in the fire three months ago--are
demanding compensations. The strikers and the participants of the
political sit of several civil movement crowded around the Ministers
when they were coming to the Square. They asked the high bodies whether
they learned about the man who tempted last night at 3 a.m. to put
himself to the flames on the Square. "He is not a member of any civil
movement, he is a citizen with triplets. Such an action of him show how
much the people are disturbed. Do you know that he is hospitalized with
the second degree burns?" the protestants asked the ministers. Mr.
L.Gundalai replied that this man who was brought to the hospital around
5 a.m. is getting better. The three Ministers entered the ger
(traditional portable dwelling) of the hunger-strikers. Most of
reporters were not allowed to enter. When the Ministers were leaving
the Square, the political sit makers demanded to send doctors to the
Square. They said if no doctor appear they would directly start a
hunger-strike. The Minister L.Gundalai replied the UB City Health
Department Head and doctors have come to them.
Mongolia - Ministers discuss health with protesters
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