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The Hindu( August 26, 1996 )
Oppression incressing: Suu KYI
Myanmar's embattled leader, Ms Suu KYI, has accused the military government 
of intensifying its oppression of the democracy movemenat. Ms. Suu KYI, in a 
weekend speech to crowds outside her Yangoon home, said yesterday democracy
supporters were being arrested and intimedated."the authorities are stepping up 
oppression against the supporters of our democratic movement," she said. "our 
people are arrested and intimedated.Ms. Suu Kyi did not refer directly to the 
recent arrest and sentensing tostiff prison terms of the some 30 National League 
for Democracy supporters, including one of her aides, but said the harsher 
oppression showed that the ruleing military was not confident of tis position.

"If the authrities are confident of their own position .... They will gain the 
support of the people without having to arrest them, put them in prison, 
threaten them," she said. Earlier on Saturday, National League for Democracy 
sources in Yangoon said reports of the imprisoning of more National League for 
Democracy supporters were filtering out to colleagues.There were unconfirmed 
reports from Myanmar's second city, mandalay, that 19 more National League 
for Democracy supporters were sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years for 
allegedly plotting unrest, an National League for Democracy source said.  

The Asian Age( August 24, 1996)
Heroin refineries seized : The anti-narcotics backed by soldiers have seized four 
abandoned refineries and chemicals used to produce heroin in north-eastern 
Burma,the state-run media reported on Firday. Aug.7-15 in the mountainous 
ravines.(AP)

The Asian Age ( August 26, 1996 )
Suu Kyi denounces fresh crackdown on supporters
Rangoon Aug.24: Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi denounsed a new 
wave of arrests of her supporters on Sunday as a senior leader of the military 
regime pledged to crush her movement.The statements follow a week where 
state-controlled media has reported the arrests of at least 30 people said to be 
backing Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy. Analysists attribute the 
new crackdown to the ruling junta feeling emboldened following Burma's 
admission as an observer to the Association of South East Asian Nation last 
month.

Ms Suu Kyi, winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, told srveral thousand 
supporters at a customary weekend rally outside her home that 
authorities were stepping up oppression against her movement. "Our people are 
arrested, threatened and inimitiated," Ms Suu Kyi told reporters later. This is 
absolutely not necessary." If the government believes in what they are doing, 
and believe it is doing the right thing, then it should be confident that they will 
gain the support of the people without arresting them." Ms Suu Kyi said.
The State Law and Order Councial, the latest in a line of military dictatorship 
that has ruled Burma since 1962, has said it was to develop an open economy 
following decates of Socialism that has beggared Burma. But though the SLORC 
freed Ms Suu Kyi from six year of house arrest last year, it has rejected her call 
for dialogue and has shown no of willingness to soften military rule toward the 
democracy she seeks.

Gen. Maung Aye SLORC deputy chairman, said in a speech on Sunday that the 
Arm would remain strong and "annihilate" anyone trying to disrupt the 
country's development. The speech was clearly aimed at Ms Suu Kyi's 
movement, which the SLORC has denounced as the puppet of western powers 
bent on bringing Burma under colonial domonation."Internal lackeys who would 
not find support at home rely on external elements and are trying to destory the 
political, economic and social foundation laid by the government," Gen. Maung 
Aye said. 

The recent speech, at an Army officers'graduation ceremony at Bahtoo, 500 km 
northeast of Rangoon, urged the cadets to build a strong modern Army to crush 
" destructionists," a term used by the SLORC to describe Ms Suu Kyi's 
movement. Ms Suu Kyi's supporters overwhelmingly won parlimentary 
election in 1991, but the SLORC never honoured the result and Parliament never 
convened. A party congress she definately held in May on the six anniversary of 
the elections was undercut by the mass arrests of 262 people.( AP )           
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