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Subject: Junta prevents Suu Kyi supporters from meeting at her home.


	Junta prevents Suu Kyi supporters from meeting at her home 
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     BANGKOK -- The Myanmar authorities yesterday prevented supporters of
     pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from gathering at her Yangon 
home for a
     party congress which the ruling junta said was a propaganda ruse. 

     Security forces cordoned off an extended area around the National 
League for
     Democracy (NLD) leader's house and the nearby party headquarters, 
diplomats
     reached by telephone in Yangon said. 

     The NLD planned to hold a two-day convention starting yesterday 
marking the seventh
     anniversary of the party's victory in the last general election to 
be held in Myanmar. The
     result was never recognised by the junta. 

     A senior Yangon official said in a faxed message yesterday that the 
authorities had no
     choice but to bar the meeting because the NLD deliberately failed to 
submit a formal
     request to hold a gathering. 

     Some 316 NLD supporters from outside Yangon, including at least 48 
elected
     parliamentary candidates, were reported to have been detained by the 
authorities or
     confined to their homes in advance of the meeting. 

     While denying any arrests of NLD supporters, the government has 
acknowledged that
     party members have been asked to avoid actions that could cause 
"chaos" in the
     country. 

[The Straits Times, 28 May 1990].

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