"...Because the CRPP was established, the military dictators proceeded to arrest and incarcerate leaders of the national political parties viz. Dr.Saw Mra Aung, Naing Tun Thein and U Kyin Shin Htan. Then they went on to harass and persecute in devious ways those incarcerated parliamentarians and NLD organising committee members (torture, pressure, disunite, intimidate) to get them to resign from the party and their positions as elected representatives. Some of these respectable persons were disgraced by travel restrictions under Section 5 (1)(f) of the 1961 Habitual Criminal Offenders Act..."