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encountered a pro-junta group of some 300 people
protesting her movement as
she arrived in the capital of northernmost Kachin state Friday, her party said.
It was the "most serious"
incident on this trip so far, National League for
Democracy (NLD) spokesman U Lwin told AFP.
The leader is currently on a month-long
political tour, the lengthiest of a
number she has made across the country since
being released from house arrest
in May last year by the ruling military
junta.
The NLD and Suu Kyi have complained
increasingly of government harassment
during her travels, particularly of the
thousands of supporters who flock to
see her, and her current trip is being viewed
as a test of whether the regime
will attempt any disruption.
U Lwin told AFP
that on Friday Aung San Suu Kyi was met by a group of some
300 members of the junta's Union
Solidarity Development Association (USDA) as
she attempted to cross a bridge to Myitkyina.
The members of the USDA -- officially a
social organisation with some 19
million members -- were carrying catapults and
small objects such as bicycle
nuts, he said.
"When she was about to cross the
bridge they stopped her... They put their
faces right into the motorcade. No one was
hurt," U Lwin said.
"In fact they didn't use them (the
catapults) at all. They were just
showing their force, and our people suggested
that they open the road. Finally
they moved away."
U Lwin said the
disturbance had been the most serious on this trip, but
said no other problems had occurred.
The Nobel peace laureate has reopened six
NLD offices, including the Kachin
state office, since departing from
her release from 19 months under house
arrest.
Her trips are aimed at reinvigorating her
beleaguered party, which won 1990
elections by a landslide but has been blocked from
governing by the military.
In the leaders' last trip to western Chin
state, USDA supporters were also
involved in shouting slogans against her at
several towns.
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Notice Continuation of the
National Emergency with Respect to
On
the Congress under section 570(b) of the
Foreign Operations, Export Financing,
and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1997
(Public Law 104-208),
that the Government of Burma has committed
large-scale repression of the
democratic opposition in
the prohibition on new investment in
in that section. The President also declared
a national emergency to deal
with the threat posed to the national security
and foreign policy of the United
States by the actions and policies of the Government
of Burma, invoking the
authority, inter alia, of the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.
Because actions and policies of the
Government of Burma continue to pose
an unusual and extraordinary threat to the
national security and foreign policy
of the
the measures adopted on that date to deal
with that emergency must continue
in effect beyond
of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C.
1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year
the national emergency with respect to
in the Federal Register and transmitted to
the Congress.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
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