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NEWS - Myanmar Military Gives Oppos
Myanmar Military Gives Opposition New Warning
Reuters
09-JUL-98
YANGON, July 9 (Reuters) - Myanmar's
military government on Thursday issued a
new warning to the opposition that their
activities would land them in trouble.
State-run newspapers said: ``There is ample
evidence that the National League for
Democracy (NLD) (has) committed political,
economic and social conspiracies with
reliance on the international colonialist bloc.''
The papers, regarded as a mouthpiece of
the ruling government, said Myanmar would
not be shaken by opposition attempts to stir
disorder in the country ``through concoctions
and rumours.''
A government statement obtained by
Reuters on Wednesday accused the
opposition of spreading rumours that violent
unrest could be expected in Myanmar on
Martyr's Day on July 19 and on August 8, the
10th anniversary of student street protests in
1988 which the military crushed.
On Tuesday, security officials stopped NLD
leader Aung San Suu Kyi and three other
NLD party members travelling with her by car
at Shwe Mya Yar village, about 80 km (50
miles) north of Yangon.
The junta prevented Suu Kyi from continuing
further north to Min Hla township to meet
another party member, saying it was for her
own security and to prevent her from
creating political unrest.
But the military said local authorities had
arranged to bring the party member from Min
Hla township to Shwe Mya Yar village to
meet Suu Kyi on Wednesday.
Suu Kyi, the 1993 Nobel Peace laureate who
was released by the military from six years of
house arrest in mid-1995, and the NLD won
a 1990 election, but the military ignored the
result.
The NLD have been calling for the
government to convene a parliament
consisting of the winners of the 1990 election
before August 21.
A Yangon-based diplomat said this week the
opposition had turned up the heat on the
government to test how far it would go to
curb the NLD's activities.
But the diplomat said that the situation in the
Myanmar capital Yangon remained calm with
no signs of stepped up security.