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Subject: Re: SPDC trying to force MPs to resign

Re: SPDC trying to force MPs to resign
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The NLD must now realise that party and the "people" of Burma have been 
pushed too hard to reach the end of the tolerance limit by forcing the 
NLD MPs and the members of the NLD party to resign from being 
representatives elect and from the NLD without their consent. 

So far, the leaders of the NLD party including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi have 
made every effort to deal peacefully with the SPDC. The NLD MPs and the 
members of the NLD party have suffered long enough by being under 
detention against their will since May'98. 
 
Clearly, it is time that the NLD review its ultimate strategy as swiftly 
as possible.

Minn Kyaw Minn
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>Myanmar trying to force MPs to resign--opposition
>09:20 a.m. Oct 21, 1998 Eastern
>
>YANGON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Myanmar's opposition National League for
>Democracy accused the military government on Wednesday of holding 
elected
>members of parliament in detention to force them to resign.
>
>``Those under detention are being pressured by means of unlawful 
methods and
>being forced to resign from being representatives elect and from the 
NLD
>without their consent,'' the party said in a statement. ``The NLD will 
not
>accept their resignations at all as they are not in accord with the 
law,''
>it said.
>
>The party, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, says 988 
of its
>members, including 203 who were elected in Myanmar's last general 
election
>eight years ago, have been detained since May. The NLD won the 1990 
election
>by a landslide but the military ignored the result.
>
>Most of the detentions have occurred since the party vowed in August 
that it
>would call a ``People's Parliament.'' The NLD leadership has since 
formed a
>committee to act on behalf of such a parliament, its strongest act of
>defiance against the ruling military council. The government has 
admitted it
>is holding some NLD members, but has given no figures. It has said that 
it
>has freed 24 NLD members from among those detained.
>
>In Bangkok, the All Burma Students' Democratic Front, an organisation 
of
>political exiles, said the government had charged the leader of the Mon
>National Democratic Front under the Emergency Provisions Act for 
backing the
>NLD committee.
>
>It said Naign Ngwe Thein, 75, had been detained since May and had been
>charged on October 9 along with two other officials of his party, Min 
Soe
>Lin and Min Kyi Win, both of whom won seats in the election. The 
student
>front said in a statement that the two were likely to receive long 
prison
>terms.
>
>A government spokesman in Yangon did not reply to a faxed query from 
Reuters
>in Bangkok about the reported charges.
>
>
>


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