NCUB CONDEMNS CONTINUED RESTRICTION

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Media Release
August 13, 1998

      NCUB CONDEMNS CONTINUED RESTRICTIONS ON DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI,
                 DEMANDS RELEASE OF 18 FOREIGN ACTIVISTS


The National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB) condemns
Burma's military regime for barring Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from
visiting the township of Bassein for the fourth time in just over
a month.

Military authorities have stopped Daw Aung San Suu Kyi some 25
kilometers outside Rangoon, near to where she was halted for six
days nearly three weeks ago.

The NCUB condemns the continued restrictions on Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi's freedom of movement and calls on the ruling State Peace and
Development Council (SPDC) to immediately lift the restrictions.

The NCUB also demands that the SPDC immediately release the 18
members of the multinational peace-making team who were detained
on Sunday for distributing goodwill messages to people in
Rangoon. The 18, from the US, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Indonesia, Thailand and Australia, were merely expressing their
solidarity with the people of Burma and should be released
immediately along with all Burma's political prisoners.

Furthermore, the NCUB is demanding that the SPDC immediately
convene the parliament that was elected in the May 1990 election.

The NCUB is the Parliament of Burma's government in exile, the
National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), and
represents some 19 ethnic and prodemocracy  organizations.

National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB)


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