SLORC SAYS SUU KYI LINKED TO....

[moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Dear Readers,
                      SLORC has been consistent in lying and tricking the
Burmese people  and now that NLD ,the elected representative party of the
people has been accused of having links to terrorists.To sideline and later
annihilate the whole NLD seems to be what the SLORC's generals live by.Even
if the NLD is linked to such acts of political violence, doesn't it appear
justifiable?

The following report will explain in detail regarding SLORC's one-sided
accusations targetted at Aung san Suu Kyi and her Party.

Sincerely,

Julien Moe
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Friday June 27 10:08 AM EDT 

Military says Suu Kyi's NLD linked to terrorist acts

By Vithoon Amorn 

RANGOON, June 27 (Reuter) - Burma's military government on Friday accused
the opposition
National League for Democracy (NLD) of collaborating with exiled Burmese
dissidents in plotting
and carrying out terrorist acts against state leaders with financial help
from Americans. 

Spokesmen of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), which took
power in
1988, said cousins and close aides of NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi accepted
$85,200 in
financial assistance from two Americans early this year. 

The spokesmen told a press conference that the government believed the
Americans worked
under cover for U.S. government organisations. 

Army colonel Thein Swe alleged that Philip Robertson of the Labour
Foundation and John
Osolneck of the Asian-American Free Labour Institute visited Rangoon in
January to give the
money to Suu Kyi's aides. 

``It can be inferred that the American citizens involved in these incidents
have operated under
cover of front organisations in order to conceal the organisations to which
they really belong,'' he
said. 

``The culprits involved in these subversive plot have not only tried to stir
up unrest to disturb the
peace, but have secretly given assistance indirectly in both cash and kind
to the NLD,'' the
spokesman said. 

Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate, was not immediately available for comment.
Access to her
lakeside home in central Rangoon has mostly been blocked by security
checkpoints since late last
year. 

The SLORC has refused to recognise NLD's landslide election victory in 1990.
They have been in
a political standoff since 1995 when Suu Kyi was released from six years of
house arrest. 

Washington, citing ``severe repression,'' imposed economic sanctions on
Burma in April because
of the military government's rights record and its treatment of the
democracy activists. 

The government spokesmen said nearly 10 NLD members and supporters had been
detained this
month for unspecified periods but a few would likely be released soon. They
said formal charges
had not been laid against them pending on-going investigation of their
activities. 

Among those arrested in mid-June were Cho Aung Than, a cousin of Suu Kyi,
his sister and her
husband, her personal photographer Ko Sunny, and Ohn Myint, an aging
politician who is also
related to Suu Kyi. 

Diplomats said earlier that the group had been detained for allegedly
helping to smuggle Suu Kyi's
videotaped anti-government speeches abroad early this month. 

A military spokesman declined to say if the government would take further
actions against other
NLD leaders. 

He said two exiled anti-SLORC groups, the Bangkok-based Federation of Trade
Unions-Burma
(FTUB) and the Washington-based National Coalition Government of the Union
of Burma
(NCGUB), had plotted bomb attacks at Chinese and Indonesian embassies in
Rangoon but their
plans were uncovered before they could be carried out. 

The government said FTUB was headed by Pyi Thit Nyunt Wai, son of an NLD
central executive
committee, while the NCGUB was led by Suu Kyi's first cousin, Sein Win. 

The spokesmen on Friday accused a Japan-based dissident group, the Burma
Association In
Japan (BAIJ), of masterminding a fatal parcel bomb attack in April that was
apparently aimed at
Secretary Two Tin Oo, one of Burma's four most powerful generals. 

The mail bomb exploded and killed Tin Oo's eldest daughter, Cho Lei Oo, 34,
a mother of two.
The senior SLORC member was at home when the bomb went off but he escaped
injury. 

The bombing was thought to be the second attack on Tin Oo in the past four
months. The army
chief of staff was the last senior official to visit a sacred Buddhist
shrine before two bombs
exploded on December 25 last year. 

The army spokesman charged that the BAIJ members comprised NLD supporters,
some of
whom had allegedly received explosives training by French and Americans. 

Burmese dissidents in Japan had denied earlier similar accusations, saying
the parcel bomb attack
was against the group's belief in peaceful protest. They said the bombing
was more likely linked to
a power struggle among the country's