Thank you very much

[enmasse_1@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Thank you very much for your prompt action, Mr Domingo Siazon. 

It is a very timely warning for the SPDC to excercise restraint. With 
this ,I hope any possible violence can be averted and the SPDC can be 
contained before your forthcoming scheduled meeting of the ASEAN 
Ministers in Manila.

SPDC should seriously consider the appeal made by the Foreign Affairs 
Secretary of Phillipines Domingo Siazon on 3 July, 1998 urging all the 
feuding factions to exercise restraint. SPDC must also take note that Mr 
Domingo Siazon had already urged the ASEAN to scrap its non-interference 
ploicy for a more felxible one. He said that other ASEAN
ambassadors he has talked with agree it's time for more active 
involvement. 

If SPDC is genuine about peaceful settlement, the obvious choice should 
be to start talking with the NLD including the ethinic groups.
Most importantly, SPDC must stop its repression and initmidation on the 
NLD party and retract its threat on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's life 
immediately.

As for the democratic forces in Burma, it is absolutely necessary to 
show complete support to the NLD's call for a parliament to be convened 
if we want to fight the SPDC to the end. We should all stand up in line 
with the NLD in one voice. We also should support the NLD's call for a 
dialogue as we all don't want to see the repeat of 1988 crisis as a 
first choice. 

Unity among all the students groups and democratic forces is a must.

In Solidarity with the NLD's resolutions and it's movements.

Towards peace and democracy in Burma.

Minn Kyaw Minn
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Re:Myanmar junta threatens Suu Kyi with legal action
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It was Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the students who were bodily hurt. If 
this is the actual collision course that SPDC has chosen to take, then 
the consequences that follows are the sole responsibilty of the SPDC.

It is time that other ASEAN member nations who decided to work together 
and invested with the SPDC should also take note that they would be wise 
to act swiftly to contain the SPDC from behaving unfairly and unjustly 
and let such undertakings to happen which will definitely lead to 
another uprising similar to that of 1988. When that happens, the 
situations will be very much worse than that in 1988 and conclusive. 
This time, the impact of the uprising will go beyond its boundary. Too 
much risks to the investing memebers of ASEAN to ignore the present 
volatile situations. As such, SPDC should be contained before it creates 
unstabilty in its own house. It should be very clear to all by now that 
this military regime, especially the " Military Intelligence Service 
(MIS)", is capable of creating such political unrests to justify another 
mass killing of its own populace because they oppose the illegitimate 
rule of the SPDC. After all,it was the "SLORC/SPDC" who did not win 
public support. We all know that.

Towards peace and democracy in Burma.

Minn Kyaw Minn
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>YANGON, June 29 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military junta threatened on 
Monday
>to take legal action against opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her
>political party, saying she was on a collision course with the 
government. 
>The warnings were carried in commentaries run by three state-owned
>newspapers which said: ``The Myanmar government and its people can no
>longer tolerate the acts of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who ignores the 
interest
>of the nation and people.'' 
>Similar warnings appeared in the media in the days prior to Suu Kyi's 
house
>arrest in 1989 for nearly six years by the then ruling military 
government.
>The Nobel Peace prize winner was released from detention in mid-1995. 
>The country's media are considered mouthpieces of the ruling State 
Peace
>and Development Council (SPDC). 
>The latest threat follows demands by Suu Kyi and her National League 
for
>Democracy (NLD) party that the junta convene parliament by August 2 in
>accordance with the results of the 1990 election. The NLD swept the
>election, but its victory was never recognised by the military. 
>The newspaper commentaries cited Law Number 5/96, which they said
>prohibited individuals or organisations from ``disturbing, destroying,
>obstructing, inciting, delivering speeches, making oral or written
>statements and disseminating in order to undermine, belittle and make
>people misunderstand the functions being carried out by the National
>Convention for the emergence of a firm and enduring Constitution.'' 
>They said those convicted for the offence faced a minimum of five years 
to
>a maximum of 20 years in jail. 
>During the eighth anniversary celebration of the NLD's 1990 election
>victory late last month, Suu Kyi demanded that the SPDC convene 
parliament
>to facilitate a session of elected members of parliament. 
>The SPDC bluntly rejected her call and said parliament could not be
>convened without the completion of a new national constitution being
>drafted by a government-appointed National Convention. 
>The Convention was set up in early 1993. It has not met since 1996,
>although the junta says two thirds of the new charter is complete. 
>The NLD walked out of the Convention some months after Suu Kyi's 
release
>from detention, calling it a sham. 
>Suu Kyi has repeatedly sought talks with the military but the junta 
flatly
>refuses to deal with her. 
>She has accused the military of abusing human rights and curbing her
>party's political activities. 
>The newspapers said Suu Kyi was being used by the West to undermine the
>junta and the national interests of Myanmar. 
>``Daw Suu Kyi ignored the interests of the nation and the people. 
Instead,
>she got so conceited that she acted like a dictator within the party 
and
>made trouble with her reliance on West at the expense of improving
>stability, peace and development in the country,'' said the commentary. 
>``Aung San Suu Kyi should take a good lesson from the case of former
>President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, who was used by the Western 
bloc,
>but he did not win public support'' it added. 
>Ngo Dinh Diem was executed after a bloody coup in Vietnam in 1963. 
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