Reuters : Suu Kyi asks Myanmar guar (r)

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RE: Reuters: Suu Kyi asks Myanmar guards to leave her home
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>A government spokesman said the guards were in the grounds to >protect 
Suu Kyi and declined to say if the military had plans to >remove them. 
>
>``She is more than a politician. She is the daughter of our national 
>hero and there are some organisations that are out to create 
>instability and the government leaders dont want anything to happen >to 
her,'' he said. 
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>

It is ironic that the SPDC's sudden admission that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 
is more than a politician and that she is the daughter of our national 
hero General Aung San came only after the NLD's statement was made 
public on Thursday saying she had officially asked at the end of July 
that the guards be removed.  

In any case, as the SPDC had not pulled out the guards from the grounds 
of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's residence since her official request on July 
31, 1998, the guard are indeed trespassing and that it would amount to 
an unlawful restriction on her by the SPDC. The SDPC has broken the law 
by restricting her movements and keeping her under guards in her own 
home.

We urge the SPDC to honor the rules of law in Burma and remove the 
guards immediately from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's residence grounds.

In soliderity with the NLD's movements,

Minn Kyaw Minn
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>Suu Kyi asks Myanmar guards to leave her home 
>08:20 a.m. Aug 06, 1998 Eastern 
>
>YANGON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
>demanded on Thursday that the military government remove its guards 
from
>the grounds of her Yangon residence, but the authorities have refused,
>opposition officials said. 
>
>The guards, said by the opposition to be working for military 
intelligence,
>have been stationed in her suburban lakeside compound since Suu Kyi was
>released from six years of house arrest in July 1995. 
>
>At the time the Nobel laureate said she wanted the guards on the 
premises
>to guarantee her safety and to maintain good relations with the 
military. 
>
>But her National League for Democracy (NLD) said in a statement on 
Thursday
>Suu Kyi had officially asked at the end of July that the guards be 
removed.
>
>
>The statement gave no reason for the request said but it was made on 
July
>31, just two days after a six-day car protest by Suu Kyi was forcibly 
ended
>by security men acting on behalf of the military. 
>
>The guards had not left by the morning of August 6 so Suu Kyi issued an
>ultimatum ordering them to leave within 20 minutes. 
>
>``She went on telling them, that unless they withdraw within the 
designated
>period, it would be trespassing and an unlawful restriction as (they 
were)
>staying on without permission,'' the NLD statement said. 
>
>Witnesses said the guards were still in Suu Kyis residence by late
>afternoon and showed no sign of departing. 
>
>A government spokesman said the guards were in the grounds to protect 
Suu
>Kyi and declined to say if the military had plans to remove them. 
>
>``She is more than a politician. She is the daughter of our national 
hero
>and there are some organisations that are out to create instability and 
the
>government leaders dont want anything to happen to her,'' he said. 
>
>Suu Kyi is the daughter of Aung San, considered the father of the 
modern
>state, who led the countrys independence struggle from Britain in the
>1940s. 
>
>Although Suu Kyi was officially released from house arrest three years 
ago,
>her movements are closely watched and all her visitors must sign in 
with
>the guards at the gate before meeting her. 
>
>Suu Kyi has used her lack of freedom as a weapon against the 
government,
>escaping from the militarys security cordon around her house three 
times in
>recent weeks. 
>
>In her latest foray on July 24, Suu Kyi and three others were en route 
to
>meet with supporters in Pathein township, west of Yangon when she was
>stopped by security officials at a bridge near Anyarsu Village about 64 
km
>(40 miles) from the capital. 
>
>The officials ordered her to return to Yangon but she refused and began 
a
>six-day sit-in which the authorities ended forcibly on July 29. The 
sit-in
>got worldwide coverage and prompted criticism of the Myanmar government
>from leading nations. 
>
>Suu Kyi became ill during the protest but has vowed to venture out 
again to
>meet supporters as soon as she is well. 
>
>The request to remove the guards comes before the 10-year anniversary 
of an
>uprising of pro-democracy activists which was bloodily suppressed on 
August
>8, 1988. 
>
>The NLD is widely expected to try to mark the anniversary and use it as 
a
>platform to campaign for the government to convene a parliament of 
members
>elected at a poll in May 1990. 
>
>The NLD won the election by an overwhelming margin but the result was
>ignored by the miltary government. 
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