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NEWS - Myanmar junta launches Inter (r)
- Subject: NEWS - Myanmar junta launches Inter (r)
- From: GGalanek@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:43:00
nevermind about that last one- I found it somewhere.
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> Subject: NEWS - Myanmar junta launches Internet offensive on NLD
> arrest accus
>
> NOTE: Does anyone want to go to Thomas Winn's house/office in
> Laurel,Maryland to demonstrate? He is the www.myanmar.com's
> administrator.
>
> Myanmar junta launches Internet offensive on NLD arrest accusations
>
> Thu 10 Sep 98 - 13:05 GMT
>
> BANGKOK, Sept 10 (AFP) - Myanmar's military government took to
> the Internet on Thursday in an offensive against international
> condemnation of its detention of hundreds of pro-democracy
> opposition members.
>
> In an apparent move to ward of criticism, the junta posted
> pictures on its website of the detained National League for Democracy
> (NLD) members eating and lounging around at various "government
> guesthouses."
>
> "Here are some photos of the NLD members who have been invited by
> the government to ask for their cooperation to help maintain
> the current peace, stability and development of the nation," the
> webpage said.
>
> Captions to the four photos included "Invited guests enjoying
> watching TV" and "Invited guests enjoying lunch," showing several
> people around a table laden with bowls of rice and other dishes.
>
> The pictures and text published on the junta's website can be
> found at -- http://www.myanmar.com/nld/nld.htm -- and carries English,
> German, French and Japanese translations.
>
> Myanmar's opposition said Wednesday the military had arrested 108
> more of its members, bringing the number detained since
> Sunday to 328, as international condemnation of the detentions
> increased.
>
> The NLD headed by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi said in a
> statement some 521 party members, including 187 members
> of parliament elected in 1990 polls, had been arrested since May
> this year following the commemoration of the eighth anniversary of
> elections there.
>
> The NLD-led opposition won the polls in a landslide, but the
> junta has refused to handover power and rejected repeated calls for a
> parliament to be convened.
>
> Observers in Yangon have said the arrests appear to be a
> pre-emptive strike following the NLD's announcement it intends
> unilaterally
> to convene by the end of September the parliament elected in
> 1990.
>
> The junta said in a statement Tuesday the party members had
> merely been invited for a political discussion, were being housed in
> government guest houes and had not been arrested.
>
> But the US embassy in Yangon said military officials had admitted
> they were being detained to thwart the convening of parliament.
>
> Overseas criticism of the arrests intensified late Wednesday. The
> United States said it "deplores in the strongest of terms" the
> detentions while Britain said it "wholly condemns" the arrests.
>
> London also urged its EU partners to adopt its positions of
> discouraging tourism, trade or investment in Myanmar.
>
> Germany condemned "the fresh wave of repression and intimidation"
> by the junta while Japan called for the detainees to be freed.
>
> Diplomats in Yangon on Thursday said the opposition figures
> detained by the junta were being treated reasonably well and were in
> no apparent danger.
>
> Before being held at government guesthouses in recent days they
> had been allowed to gather clothes, toiletries and any necessary
> medication, added the diplomats, including envoys from western
> states vigorously opposed to the junta.