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 Recalling crackdown, Suu Kyi vows to keep pressure on Burma 
By Reuters, 08/08/98 


ONDON - Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi pledged yesterday to
maintain her pro-democracy campaign and said she would not be intimidated by
the military government. 


Suu Kyi, speaking on the eve of the 10th anniversary of a bloody army
crackdown on democracy activists, said the military government ``has got to
understand they can't achieve everything by force.''


``I don't think there will be anybody in Burma who does not remember what
happened 10 years ago tomorrow - painfully and with deep regret,'' she told
Britain's Channel Four News at her National League for Democracy
headquarters in Yangon. 


``We are determined to do everything we can to make good our promise to the
people that we are going to bring democracy to Burma,'' she said. 


Opposition activists in Burma, which is also known as Myanmar, held protests
yesterday to demand that the government convene a parliament of members
elected in a 1990 vote. 


The NLD won the election by a wide margin but the military ignored the results. 


Suu Kyi said: ``This is a day on which we should renew our resolve to work
for democracy and to build up the kind of system in which people by the
thousands are not shot down simply because they have asked for something
they have a right to demand.''