INFORMATION SHEET N0.A-0492(I/L)

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                                  INFORMATION SHEET

 N0.A-0492(I/L)                                            7th July 1998

            Preventive Measures Taken To Maintain Peace and Stability

	On 7th  July at 1015 hrs. NLD Chairman U Aung Shwe, an elected 
representative U Maung Aye, Secretary General Mrs. Aris and a driver in a
motor vehicle were stopped by the local  security officials at Shwe Mya Yar
village
located approximately 50 miles north of Yangon.

	The local security officials noticing the absence of Mrs.Aris' security team
on this trip made an enquiry and requested U Aung Shwe and Mrs. Aris not to
proceed with their planned trip to Min Hla Township, approximately (92) miles
north of Yangon.

	U Aung Shwe, Mrs. Aris  and party were later requested to return back to
Yangon after permission to proceed was denied by the authorities concerned in
Yangon on ground of security and prevention as well  in the making of
unnecessary political agitation and activities intending to create a head-on
collision and confrontation with the relevant authorities in an attempt to
bring about social unrest and political disturbances. 

	It is also learnt that 7th of July is the day when in 1962 some unscrupulous
student unrest took place in Yangon and henceforth has being  annually
agitated and commemorated by the terrorist organizations and anti-government
groups abroad for politicization. It is regretful that the NLD leadership has
deliberately chosen the occasion to create unnecessary and unwanted
confusion, confrontation and collision  and thereby to threaten the disruption
of the
prevailing peace, tranquillity and stability at any cost. While at the same
time fabrication and disinformation campaign have been carried out through
the media and some embassies in Yangon to mislead the world into thinking that
an
internal revolution and ethnic uprising are  imminently brewing in Myanmar.

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