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Burma's government restricts democr
BURMA'S GOVERNMENT RESTRICTS DEMOCRACY LEADER.
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Burma's military rulers have laid metal spikes and barbed
wire outside the home of National League for Democracy
leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to prevent her attending a party
meeting in the capital, Rangoon.
South-East Asia correspondent Ginny Stein reports.
The Burmese Government said the NLD leader had been
requested not to leave her compound, saying her plans to
travel to the meeting in a suburb of the capital, Rangoon,
could threaten community peace and tranquility. The NLD
has been attempting to establish a youth wing of the party.
This latest supression of Aung San Suu Kyi's activities
comes despite diplomatic hopes that Burma's recent entry to
the association of South-East Asian Nations would
encourage greater tolerance amongst the Junta.<> The
National League for Democracy won a landslide eledctions
in 1990 but they have never been recognised by the
military.
[ABC News, 14 November 1997]
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