"Note - To be read with Statement 69 (5/00) dated 2 May 2000... The majority of the NLD members of parliament who have been forcibly and illegally incarcerated demonstrated their disapproval of the actions of the military by legally staging a hunger strike. These members of parliament are respectable persons who were elected in free and fair elections by the people and entrusted with state power, which according to democratic principles reposes in the people..."