Statement of the Burma Lawyers? Council Regarding the Threat of Legal Action Against U Aung Shwe, Chair of the National League for Democracy, and U Aye Tha Aung, Secretary of the Committee Representing People?s Parliament

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Statement of the Burma Lawyers? Council Regarding the Threat of Legal Action Against U Aung Shwe, Chair of the National League for Democracy, and U Aye Tha Aung, Secretary of the Committee Representing People?s Parliament

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"On February 15, 2007, the BBC reported that the Chief of Police of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the military regime currently ruling Burma, threatened to take legal action against U Aung Shwe, Chair of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and U Aye Tha Aung, Secretary of the Committee Representing People?s Parliament (CRPP), for the allegedly illegal formation of the CRPP. It is known that the objective of CRPP is to convene People?s Parliament as an implementation of the results of the May 1990 election, in which the NLD prevailed but the SPDC refused to honor..."

Source/publisher: 

"LawKa PaLa - Legal Journal on Burma" - No. 26 (April 2007) - Burma Lawyers? Council (BLC)

Date of Publication: 

2007-02-15

Date of entry: 

2018-06-18

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English

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