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NEWS- Myanmar Urges Pro-Govt. A
Myanmar Urges Pro-Govt. Activists to Guard Nation
Reuters
15-JAN-98
YANGON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Prime
Minister and Senior General Than
Shwe has called on millions of
pro-government activists to guard
Myanmar from false propaganda
directed against the country,
state-owned media reported on
Thursday.
``Neo-colonialists have been making
misleading allegations and
irresponsible remarks to make the
world misunderstand Myanmar, and
are inciting their lackeys inside the
country,'' he said told Union Solidarity
and Development Association
(USDA) activists on the outskirts of
Yangon on Wednesday.
The general was apparently referring
to Western charges that the ruling
military junta has violated human
rights and curbed the political
activities of the opposition led by
Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu
Kyi.
The junta formed pro-government
USDA in 1993 to counter opposition
parties and foreign agencies. It now
has more than eight million members
USDA activists have labelled Suu
Kyi's National League for Democracy
(NLD) a destructive internal element
and international agencies and
foreign media as external destructive
groups.
The NLD overwhelmingly won the
1990 national elections, but the
military ignored the results and has
continued to rule with an iron hand.