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ATTENTION ALL ***** PLEASE INFORM SLORC/SPDC OF THEIR CITIZENSHIP LAW

Dear friends:   Please send the item below, kindly provided by David
Arnott, to the ruling generals and the those who echo their masters'
voice. Send the item to all so-called Myanmar Embassies by email, fax, or
snailmail.
                         In solidarity,  CTY
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Subject: ASSK's Burmese Citizenship

JUST A REMINDER OF THE RELEVANT BURMESE LAW, IN VIEW OF THE REAPPEARENCE
OF THE PERENNIAL RUMOURS THAT THE JUNTA PLANS TO DEPORT DAW AUNG SAN SUU
KYI, WHO HAS NEVER HAD A BRITISH PASSPORT. SEE, IN PARTICULAR, PARAS 15,
16 AND 17

Burma Citizenship Law (Pyithu Hluttaw Law No. 4 of 1982)........

3.  Nationals such as the Kachin, Kayah, Karen, Chin, Burman, Mon,
Rakhine or Shan and ethnic groups as have settled in any of the
territories included within the State as their permanent home from a
period prior to 1185 B.E., 1823 A.D. are Burma citizens......

7.  The following persons born in or outside the State are also
citizens:-
   (a) persons born of parents, both of whom are citizens;
   (b) persons born of parents, one of whom is a citizen and the other an
associate citizen;
   (c) persons born of parents, one of whom is a citizen and  the other a
naturalized citizen;.....

10.   In respect of a citizen born outside the State, the parent or
guardian shall have his birth registered in the prescribed manner, within
one year from the date of birth at the Burmese Embassy or Consulate or
organization prescribed by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
     Proviso.  If registration is not possible within one year from the
date of birth, application may be made by the parent or guardian,
furnishing sufficient reasons to the central body through the Burmese
Embassy or Consulate or organization prescribed by the Ministry of Home
Affairs......

[***] 15.   (a) A citizen shall not lose his citizenship merely by
marriage to a foreigner;......

[***] 16.  A citizen who leaves the State permanently, or who acquired
the citizenship of or registers himself as the citizen of another
country, or who takes out a passport or a similar certificate of another
country ceases to be a citizen.

17.  The citizenship of a citizen by birth shall not be revoked, except
in the case of cessation of citizenship under section 16.

[Source: "Working People's Daily" Special Supplement, 16 October 1982]
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P.S.
RULING RANGOON GENERALS, MSSRS. L/G.KHIN NYUNT, S/GTHAN SHWE, L/G.MAUNG
AYE, TIN U, PLEASE NOTE:  THOSE BURMESE -- VERY NUMEROUS, WE FEAR -- WHO
HAVE TAKEN UP CANADIAN, AMERICAN, AUSTRALIAN, GERMAN, SINGAPOREAN,
BRITISH (& ETC.) CITIZENSHIPS (AND HOLD FOREIGN PASSPORTS, YET STILL HOLD
ON TO AND USE BURMESE PASSPORTS (WHENEVER CONVENIENT) ARE, IN LAW, NO
LONGER BURMESE CITIZENS. HOW ABOUT DOING YOUR DUTY AS A GOVERNMENT AND
BEGIN CRACKING DOWN ON THOSE OPPORTUNIST ELEMENTS, WHO ARE BREAKING THE
COUNTRY'S CITIZENSHIP LAW? THIS WOULD BE MORE PROFITABLE THAN HOWLING
UNHOLY NONSENSE AND GETTING EXICITED ABOUT MARRIAGE TO FOREIGNERS!! (ctY)
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