Reuters-Myanmar papers call for act (r)

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Subject: Reuters-Myanmar papers call for action against Suu Kyi 


I believe that if such an article has been printed in national newspapers,
there is no use in keeping it off the net.  In fact we have the MI
ordering its net posters NOT to post these offensive pieces on the net.
Why?  If they are brave enough to print cheap shots against targets who
are not given the right to respond, why are they not brave enough to show
their handywork to a community that DOES have the right to respond?

Perhaps the military intelligence operatives who share responsibility for
the account called okkar would be good enough to put their heads together
and arrive at an answer to these questions.

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, hlaing oo wrote:

> Myanmar papers call for action against Suu Kyi
> 06:05 a.m. Aug 02, 1999 Eastern
> YANGON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - A commentary in Myanmar's state newspapers on
> Monday accused opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of ``brazenly spoiling
> peace'' and reiterated a call for legal action against her.
> 
> The official Myanma News Agency (MNA), meanwhile, quoted powerful
> intelligence chief Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt as saying opponents of the
> military government had been plotting to incite unrest next month.
> 
> The commentary carried by the Myanmar-language ``Kyemon'' and ``Myanma
> Alin'' newspapers accused Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy of
> destroying national reconciliation.
> 
> ``Especially Daw Suu Kyi is brazenly spoiling peace,'' it said. The
> commentary, signed ``An Advocate,'' accused Suu Kyi and her cousin Sein Win,
> who heads a government in exile, of seeking foreign assistance, colluding
> with the outlawed Karen National Union insurgents, and of trying to disrupt
> ceasefire agreements between the government and other ethnic groups.
> 
> ``She is cutting the union into pieces so the neo-colonialists can swallow
> it piece by piece after its disintegration. Once she succeeds in her work,
> the union will be in bloodshed.''
> 
> Suu Kyi should no longer be tolerated and forgiven, it said.
> 
> ``I hereby suggest on behalf of the nationalities of the Union that the
> government should take effective action against her in accord with the

> prevailing laws.''
> 
> The official papers in Myanmar are usually considered the mouthpiece of the
> military government, but similar calls against Suu Kyi since her release
> from six years' house arrest in 1995 have not resulted in legal action
> against her.
> 
> Khin Nyunt, considered the most powerful figure in the ruling State Peace
> and Development Council, on Sunday accused opponents of plotting unrest to
> mark ``four nines'' day -- September 9, 1999.
> 
> ``They are attempting to create disturbances like the four-eight riots,''
> MNA quoted him as telling an Interior Ministry meeting.
> 
> Khin Nyunt was referring to August 8, 1988, the date taken to mark the start
> of a nationwide democracy uprising the military crushed the following month.
> 
> Khin Nyunt accused foreign broadcasting stations of ``spreading propaganda
> with a view to panicking the people saying that it will be 'four nines' this
> time.''
> 
> ``Those who are involved in this matter and how they are involved are
> becoming reasonably clear now. The people will be informed about it when
> time is ripe,'' he added.
> 
> After the 1988 uprising, the government accused the British Broadcasting
> Corporation of inciting unrest by publicising a student call for mass
> demonstrations on September 8, 1988.
> 
> The Mynamar-language services of Voice of America and Radio Free Asia have
> carried reports recently quoting dissidents in exile as calling for
> anti-government protests on September 9.
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