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>Senior government spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Hla Min, said the 
>NLD's plans could derail national security. 
>
>"We could have a lot of problems on our hands. That leaves the 
>government with not much choice but to prevent the from NLD taking 
>that stance, " the colonel said. 
>
>Hla Min said that the government found the NLD's policies "detrimental 
to the interests of the man on the streets". 
>
>The overwhelming majority of people in Myanmar are not obsessed with
>politics. 
>
>"They don't see the periodical right to vote and the chance to >express 
their political desires openly and freely as the number one >thing in 
this country. That will probably come when we are at a more >developed 
stage," he said. 
>
>



Speak for yourself. You know, all you have said are lies. The 
overwhelming majority of the people in Burma are not politically naive 
as you appeared to be. 

You know very well that even under the most repressive military 
dictatorship the people of Burma have courage to express their political 
desires openly many times and they will do it again if the need arises. 
All the protests came primarily because of the misrule of the successive 
military regime and their failure to return to the democratic rule, not 
to mention the nepotism, corruption, and the 
failures of their economic policies that brought hardship to the man on 
the streets. 

These are just some of the problems that the present and the past 
military regime have failed to address and trying to pass it all to the 
next generation of military 'yes-men'. Their hands are full and they are 
filling it with some more at an exponential rate. This won't work. All 
thinking minds will realise that this is true. So, it's time that we see 
things clearly when we still have time rather than beating about the 
bush. The time for change is now. 

The world around us have changed. We cannot isolate ourselves from the 
world or from our neighbours anymore. Everywhere, governments are now 
having hardtimes pleasing the more and more demanding populace. You 
cannot rule by force anymore. Time has changed. In this era of 
Information Technology, you cannot close the eyes and ears of the 
people.   
 
Minn Kyaw Minn
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>Wednesday, September 2, 1998 Published at 17:44 GMT 18:44 UK 
>
>Foreign diplomats meet Burma opposition 
>
>Foreign diplomats in Rangoon have met the leader of the National League 
for
>Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, and several members of her executive 
committee
>to discuss the party's plans to convene the parliament elected in 1990, 
in
>defiance of Burma's military junta. 
>
>The meeting took place as student protests in the capital's Institute 
of
>Technology came to an end. 
>
>And in a rare interview with the BBC, a spokesman for Burma's military
>government said the military authorities refuse to rule out imprisoning
>Aung San Suu Kyi if she goes ahead with her plans to create a people's
>parliament.
>
>Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent long periods under house arrest, said
>members of her National League for Democracy party were prepared to go 
to
>go to jail in their attempts to restore civilian rule in Burma. 
>
>Senior government spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Hla Min, said the NLD's
>plans could derail national security. 
>
>"We could have a lot of problems on our hands. That leaves the 
government
>with not much choice but to prevent the from NLD taking that stance, " 
the
>colonel said. 
>
>Hla Min said that the government found the NLD's policies "detrimental 
to
>the interests of the man on the streets". 
>
>The overwhelming majority of people in Myanmar are not obsessed with
>politics. 
>
>"They don't see the periodical right to vote and the chance to express
>their political desires openly and freely as the number one thing in 
this
>country. That will probably come when we are at a more developed 
stage," he
>said. 
>
>Last month, Lt-General Khin Nyunt, one of the government's most senior
>officers, described the NLD as "obstructionists with evil intentions". 
>
>Student protest ends 
>
>The biggest display of discontent with the military government in 
recent
>years - a 500-strong student sit-in protest at Rangoon's Institute of
>Technology - has ended peacefully. 
>
>The demonstration came after last month's street protest against
>authorities, the first that Burma has seen in two years. 
>
>It is reported that there were no signs of police attempting to break 
up
>the sit-in, but senior teaching staff were seen negotiating with the
>students. 
>
>Last month police detained a number of students after breaking up a
>pro-democracy rally held by up to 1,000 students. 
>
>The demonstration followed the end of a 13-day roadside protest by the
>opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, against the military government's
>restrictions on her movements. 
>
>
>
>


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