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Re: Reuters-FOCUS-Myanmar papers seek Suu Kyi deportation
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No doubt, the conditions or life of the entire people of Burma including 
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi are at the worst in ten years, now. But, there is 
no new or unexpected threats to her or to the entire people of the 
nation. There were threats to all of us all along since the 
RC/BSPP/SLORC/SPDC came to power. The threat to deport Daw Aung San Suu 
Kyi will only put the SPDC into a corner. 

Have no doubt that it is the SPDC that is frightened and panic that the 
situation will become like in 1988, especially, the generals who own the 
businesses or are the share holders of joint-venture corporations with 
foreign companies inside and outside Burma since SLORC took control of 
the power in 1988. 

"The move will do more harm than good, when the shit hits the fan."

Look what is happening around us in Indonesia, Malaysia. The regional 
economies in shamble. Asia and the world going through the currency and 
stock crisis. Foreign investors are pulling out of Burma. World bank has 
shut its door on the SPDC. Who are the more volunerable one now in 
Burma? The generals. They have been tied to their necks now. 

We know, much loss have already incurred to them. Ne Win still will be 
rich while all they have stolen in a decade or so will be wiped out if 
no compromise is being saught in time and take the advantage of the 
NLD's offer to talk. Don't be a fool.
  

United we stand,

Minn Kyaw Minn
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>``People are becoming frightened and panic that the situation will 
>become like in 1988 as the foreign broadcasting stations are 
>broadcasting their instigations,'' it said. 
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>FOCUS-Myanmar papers seek Suu Kyi deportation 
>12:29 a.m. Sep 08, 1998 Eastern 
>
>By Aung Hla Tun 
>
>
>
>YANGON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Myanmar's state-controlled newspapers on 
Tuesday
>called on the military government to deport opposition leader Aung San 
Suu
>Kyi, saying she was a foreigner trying to destabilise the country. 
>
>
>
>The call came a day after Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD)
>said the authorities had detained 110 of its members since Sunday in a 
move
>to prevent the party from calling a ``People's Parliament.'' 
>
>
>
>A commentary carried in the Myanmar-language Myanmar Alin (Light of
>Myanmar) and Kyemon (Mirror) newspapers was attributed to ``an 
advocate.'' 
>
>
>
>It accused Suu Kyi of trying to destabilise the country and said her
>marriage to an Englishman made her a foreigner. Her husband, Michael 
Aris,
>is an academic. 
>
>
>
>``Therefore I would like to request the government most humbly on 
behalf of
>the entire people to issue a deportation order for Daw Suu Kyi...,'' it
>said. 
>
>
>
>State newspapers usually closely reflect government thinking. Last 
month an
>article suggested Suu Kyi's deportation, but Monday's article was the
>strongest direct call for it. 
>
>
>
>On Monday a government spokesman confirmed that authorities had 
detained an
>unspecified number of NLD members and said they would take 
``appropriate
>action'' against Suu Kyi and other NLD leaders if they stuck to their 
vow
>to convene a parliament. 
>
>
>
>The NLD made the vow as the military has refused to recognise the 
results
>of the country's last general election eight years ago, which the party 
won
>by a landslide. 
>
>
>
>The NLD said those detained included 50 members who won parliamentary
>seats. 
>
>
>
>The newspaper commentary accused Suu Kyi of creating unrest since 1988. 
>
>
>
>The charismatic Suu Kyi emerged as the main opposition leader that year 
at
>the height of nationwide uprising for democracy which the military 
crushed
>killing thousands of people, according to most independent estimates. 
>
>
>
>The military held her under house arrest for six years from 1989. In 
1991
>she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her courage in standing up to
>military rule. 
>
>
>
>The newspaper commentary accused Suu Kyi of ``brazenly violating the
>independent sovereign power of Myanmar'' by discussing its internal 
affairs
>with the U.S. and British embassies. 
>
>
>
>It said Suu Kyi was not a Myanmar citizen as she was married to an
>Englishman and Myanmar law did not allow dual nationality. 
>
>
>
>In addition, she had failed to register the births of her sons with the
>Myanmar Embassy or to pay Myanmar taxes on income earned abroad, 
although
>she had declared income while in India to the British Embassy, it said. 
>
>
>
>``In view of this, it is evident that Daw Suu Kyi is a British 
citizen,''
>it said. 
>
>
>
>``The prevailing laws in Britain allow its citizens to have dual
>nationality. Section 16 of the Myanmar Citizen Law (1982) does not 
allow
>Myanmar citizens to have dual nationality. 
>
>
>
>``It is clearly prescribed in Section 16 that the citizenship of a 
citizen
>ceases when he leaves the country for good or when he is naturalised or
>registered in another country or when he gets a passport or similar
>document from another country,'' it said. 
>
>
>
>The article also blamed rises in prices of consumer goods on Suu Kyi's
>confrontational policies. 
>
>
>
>``People are becoming frightened and panic that the situation will 
become
>like in 1988 as the foreign broadcasting stations are broadcasting 
their
>instigations,'' it said. 
>
>
>
>Amid the standoff between the government and opposition in recent 
weeks,
>university students, who led the 1988 uprising, have staged their 
biggest
>protests in years at their campus grounds. 
>
>
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