The Nation (7/6/98) news

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1:)Burmese junta warns teachers to curb unrest

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Burmese junta warns teachers to curb unrest

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Rangoon- One of Burma's most ruling generals has warned schoolteachers to
curb alleged attempts by dissidents to spark political unrest in the
country's education system, official newspapers reported yesterday.

	The warning by Lt-Gen-Khin Nyunt precedes the return of students to
primary, middle and high schools after a three-month annual holiday on
Thursday. Universities have been closed since unrest in December 1996.

	Khin Nyunt, the powerful head of military intelligence, urged teachers
in a speech on Friday to be aware of "subversive elements" seeking to
create disturbances.

	"It is necessary to be vigilant against attempts by internal traitors
and some neocolonialists to create disturbances in the education sector,"
Khin Nyunt said.

	Thought he did not mention her by name, Khin Nyunt appeared to be
referring to pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991
Nobel Peace Prize.

	Ruling State Peace and Development Council view Suu Kyi's advocacy to
democracy and human rights, the latest incarnation or 36 years of
military rule, as a plot orchestrated by foreign powers to subjugate
Burma.

	A student-led uprising against military rule was bloodily crushed in
1988. Suu Kyi, daughter of independence hero Aung San, rose to prominence
amid the unrest.

	Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy party last month held its first
congress allowed by the government to mark a landslide victory in
parliamentary elections in 1990. The military never allowed the
legislature to convene.


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