Committee representing members of the People's
Parliament elected in the 1990 multi-party general elections
(Committee representing the People's Parliament)
Notification No. 7 (1999)
1. The National League for Democracy was legally registered and participated
in the free and fair multiparty general elections in 1990.
2. The NLD contested in many constituencies and won. The results of those
elections with particulars of who won, the number of votes each received and
the percentage of the votes have all been officially announced and legally
acknowledged. Therefore, these victors have a legal standing as People's
Parliament representatives.
3. The legal People's Parliament representatives of the legally constituted NLD
elected in legal elections which was legally contested was legally published.
4. However, the Military Intelligence authorities are manipulating the voters
and by illegal and unlawful methods using them as scapegoats to vociferously
claim that they have no confidence in the People's Parliament Representatives
and do not support them.
5. There is no legality whatsoever in the measures that the authorities are
taking. Their actions are absolutely outside the provisions of the Political
Parties Registration Law and the Pyithu Hluttaw (People's Parliament) Law.
6. The two persons being illegally abused are
(1) U Than Htun (People's Parliament representative from Taungtha township, Mandalay Ddivision) and
(2) U Lun Tin (People's Parliament
Representative from
7. We now hear that the authorities are resorting to illegal methods against U
Hla Pe, People's Parliament representative of
Committee Representing the People's Parliament
Rangoon
15 February 1999
(Responsibility for this publication is taken by the National League for
Democracy.)