Clarification on how the NLD Party

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Clarification on how the NLD Party in the country has been conspiring with
Myanmar Expatriate Groups and some international organizations to destabilize
the situation and incite anarchy and uprising within Myanmar

    Certain events which took place with effect from April 1998 show clearly
that the National League for Democracy Party (NLD) has been deliberately
employing all kinds of tactics and pursuing a course that would result in
confrontation and collision with the Government. Latterly, they have
accelerated these subversive acts by persisting in schemes to realize their
expressed goal of convening parliament and thus bring; about a situation of
direct confrontation with the Government. While making plans and arrangements
to convene parliament and carrying out other schemes to destabilize the
country, in July and August, I 998, they simultaneously began the distribution
of agitative and subversive pamphlets and created disturbances in the name of
what they termed "the Students' Union." The press briefing today intends to
prove with clear and irrefutable evidence who the perpetrators of the
conspiracies are and who their accessories. It will also reveal conclusively
the organizations that instigated and maintained control of these subversive
and treasonous plots as well as those who aided and abetted them.

2.	The NLD had begun these confrontational tactics in July and August 1998,
while Daw Suu Kyi herself, with a few of her followers secretly left Yangon to
visit some towns in Ayeyawady Division on the pretext of an organizational
tour, but which was in fact a show of solitary protest. She started her
journey on 7th July with a visit to Minhla apparently to meet with her party
members but actually with the intent of inciting unrest.
It will be seen that she staged her solitary protests three times within the
same month. It was also within this period, that she tried to coerce the
Government to convene parliament before 21 August in accordance with the
results of the 1990 general election. This therefore shows that her solitary
protests were staged, more or less as a leverage for the convening of
parliament that they were demanding. While she and her-party were carrying out
these subversive activities, the foreign print media as well as radio and
televi5ion were noisily drumming up support so that disturbances would erupt
within the country.

3.	At the same time, seditious pamphlets were being widely distributed and
letters were sent to rectors and principals of institutes and colleges, to
hotels and other entrepreneurs by post, while other propaganda letters were
faxed to Government offices. Threatening calls were also made by telephone.
All this was done to coincide with Daw Suu Kyi's solitary demonstrations and
the NLD's call for the convening of parliament, which had all started at the
beginning of July 1998. These anti-government propaganda leaflets and flyers
with demands for "the convening of parliament, the establishment of democracy
and the overthrow of the Government" were distributed in Yangon and other big
cities and towns in the name of many unions and associations including the
"All Burma Students Union" and the "Myanmar Students Union."

4.	The Alternative Asean Network of Burma also took part in these seditious
plots and under its auspices 18 foreigners from the United States of America,
Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand entered Myanmar on 9th August and
actually participated in these deplorable activities. At the same time
attempts were made to foil the university and college examinations scheduled
to begin on 18th August, 1998 by despatching letters of objection to the
educational authorities concerned as well as distributing letters to provoke
and upset the student masses. They then stepped up this campaign to be able to
implement their .schemes for unrest without fail. Thus, on 24th August soon
after the NLD deadline of 21st August for convening the parliament, they
succeeded in rounding up and inciting a few dissident students and managed to
stage a demonstration in the vicinity of Hledan. On 22nd September also, a few
students tried to create unrest and upheaval by distributing some leaflets at
the corner of 30th Street and Anawrahta Road on the evening 22nd September.
Likewise, the ABSDF transmitted false reports, via the Internet that
disturbances had erupted in the country and that 17 officers of the Armed
Forces-had been arrested. The same contrived news reports were also used by
the BBC and VOA to add impetus- to these instigations. But the organizations
responsible for security, through vigilance, succeeded in obtaining
information beforehand, enabling them to maintain security and apprehend the
conspirators and perpetrators. The investigations revealed that the hardcore
members of the All Burma Students Union (Ba-Ka-Tha) in the country; aided and
abetted by other dissident organizations within and without the country as
well as a few students whom they had recruited had joined forces with some NLD
party members to stage these seditious movements.

    Hardcore members of the local All Burma Students Union and NLD party
members join forces to create disturbances as instructed by expatriate
activist groups also operating in the name of the All Burma Student's Union
(Ba-ka-tha).

5.	The person who led the demonstration at Heldan was All Burma Students'
Union hardcore member Myo Min Zaw. He was trained by none other than Thar Swe
(a) Hla Myo Swe, who was identified as actually being a BCP (UG) member,
posing as member of the Dagon University Student Union member at the press
conference held on 1st March, 1998. Thar Swe (a) Hla Myo Swe himself however
had absconded to the Thai border in May 1998, but having assumed a false
identity and name as a student he is said to be operating in the name of the
All Burma Student Union. We were able to uncover a plot by Myo Min Zaw, who,
as instructed by Thar Swe (a) Hla Myo Swe, was to create disturbances in
support of the NLD demand to convene parliament and to object to the ongoing
university and college examinations. So, as instructed, he recruited members
from cells that had been previously formed, and known respectively as "The New
Outlook Literary Circle, "The Middle Path (Myitzima) Literary Circle" and"The
Kon Zedan Literary Circle", and staged a demonstration together with some
opposition students from the Technology Institute, Hlaing University and the
Thanlyin Technical Institute. It was also discovered that they had received
financial assistance amounting to 160,000 (one hundred and sixty thousand
Kyats) from Thar Swe in Thailand to enable them to stage these demonstrations.
Myo Min Zaw with the help of some NLD youths distributed Photostat copies of
leaflets calling for the convening of parliament as well as other seditious
pamphlets under the heading of the Young Student United Front as part of the
movement that took place on Saturday, the 24th of August, 1998. After this
incident, Myo Min Zaw reported to Thar Swe by phone, so Thar Swe sent 320,000
kyats on 27th August and an additional amount of 93,000 kyats on 3rd September
for the purpose of staging further similar demonstrations.

5.	While Myo Min Zaw in collusion with Thar Swe in Thailand were hatching
plots to disrupt conditions in the country, we were able to uncover another
conspiracy by hardcore member of the Democracy Party for New Society, Yan Aung
Soe (a) Ye Htut, and a former member of the All Burma Students Union, Tun
Myint Aung who had absconded after his involvement in the student unrest of
December, 1996. They plotted to recruit and train additional hardcore members
with the help of certain members of the NLD Party. Tun Myint Aung was given
the task of establishing contact with Thar Nyunt Oo who had absconded to
Thailand after participating in the student unrest of December, 1996, to lend
support to the NLD movement to convene parliament. He was also responsible for
continuously transmitting news about all NLD movements. Therefore in order to
keep track of NLD movements, Tun Myint Aung met with and held discussions with
NLD Hluttaw representative-elect of Yebyu Township U Toe Bo. He told the
latter that if the NLD should convene parliament, he and his member would
mobilize their forces together to engage in supportive movements from the
outside. According information received Thar Nyunt Oo also gave Tun Myint Aung
110,000 kyats to assist them in their opposition activities. With this money
Tun Myint Aung was thus able to write, photocopy and distribute anti-
government leaflets:

7.	Tun Myint Aung in collusion with Myo Min Zaw had initiated an anti-
government movement on the one hand, but on the other, had also linked up with
active members of the Democracy Party for New Society organized by hard-line
member Yan Aung Soe (a) Ye Htut and together had organized and participated in
opposition activities to support the convening of parliament. To reinforce Yan
Aung Soe (a) Ye Htut's activities. All Burma Students Union (ABSU) member Min
Zin who was now underground, despatched Thet Win Aung who had absconded
together with him to Thailand, to return to Yangon on 9th August, 1998.
    His main task was to keep an eye on Daw Suu Kyi's movements, on the
condition of the people in Yangon, and the activities of the students and to
report without fail any unusual occurrences. He was also to contact and keep
in constant touch with small student activist groups and together with Yan
Aung Soe (a) Ye Htut, jointly render them help and dassistance. Everytime the
NLD made a move towards the convening of parliament, the ABSU was also to make
concerted moves and step up momentum to support it. Meanwhile Min Zin in
Bangkok, issued orders that the ABSU was to distribute pamhplets endorsing the
NLD plan to convene parliament in August as well as other anti-government
pamphlets. Yan Aung Soe (a) Ye Htut himself wrote the pamphlets and his hard-
line members distributed copies in Yangon. Then he organized a few student
malcontents of the Thanlyin Technical Institute and incited them to stage a
noisy protest and distribute pamphlets to incite the people going about their
business at the - corner of Anawrahta Street and 30th Street on the evening of
22nd August, 1998. It was also discovered that Min Zin had sent from Bangkok
several instalments of cash totalling 972,895 kyats to enable Yan Aung Soe and
Thet Win Aung to step up the momentun of their destabilization campaign within
the country. With this money, Yan Aung Soe (a) Ye Htut rented an apartment as
a base for their activities, printed and distributed pamphlets of subversion
and gave stipends to the hard core ABSU members and the students they had
managed to recruit.

8. In accordance with Min Zin's instructions, they made an attempt to meet
with Daw Suu Kyi through the NLD youths led by Bo Bo, in order to learn more
about the NLD plan for convening parliament and to get a clearer understanding
of Daw Suu Kyi's outlook. At the same time they joined forces with the NLD
youth so that the NLD and the ABSU could coordinate their actions and make
concerted political moves. An account of their joint conspiracies and closely
co-ordinated political moves are shown in detail on the display boards. 
Attempts made by some members of the NLD headed by Daw Suu Kyi to destabilize
conditions in the country.

9.	I will now brief you on now Daw Suu Kyi and some of her NLD party members
attempted to create conditions that would lead to unrest and upheavals in the
country. Daw Suu Kyi, with regard to her scheme for convening parliament was
very anxious that the masses would refuse to back her up and not take part.
She therefore personally directed U Soe Myint, elected representative of Minbu
Township Constituency-l that in this matter of convening parliament, it was
necessary for all NLD party members to make every endeavour to organize the
people and make them rise up in a mass to support this cause. Evidence shows
that she had schdeuled her second trip of the Ayeyarwady Division in August
with the expectation of being halted on the way by the authorities. And this
incident was deliberately scheduled to coincide with student protests in
Yangon and the outbreak of disturbances by the people in Ayeyarwady and Magway
Divisions that had been planned beforehand as a sign of support for the/
convening of parliament The personal relationship between U Soe Myint and Daw
Suu Kyi is one of intimacy. Since 1997, U Soe Myint had taken up residence in
Daw Suu Kyi's compound and had been the librarian cum housekeeper for the
entire household. That is why Daw Suu Kyi affectionately calls him "U Soe Ya".
It is said that she enjoyed the same; intimacy with his two sons Lin Tun (a)
Lin Lin and Kyaw Khine (a) Hpo La Pyi. She had long-term plans to use U Soe
Myint's son Kyaw Khine in her activities to defy authority and therefore
arranged for him to attend computer training and Spoken English Courses,
paying FEC-250 and 25,000 kyats towards tuition fees out of her own pocket.

10.    U Soe Myint, in accordance with Daw Suu Kyi's instructions, with NLD
youth Khin Maung Oo of Thaketa and five others, distributed copies of Daw Suu
Kyi's "Appeal To The People" which had been timed and broadcast by the VOA to
coincide with her Ayeyarwady Division trip, after making some modifications to
the paper, copies of this paper were distributed in Ah Hpyauk, Danubyu,
Nyaungdon and Hsar Ma Lauk townships. Of thc 7000 kyats that Daw Suu Kyi had
given as expenses for the trip they spent 4,000 kyats. Moreover, U Soe Myint
had met with NLD youth of North Okkalappa Township Thein Htay to, warn him
that, attempts made to organize and persuade the people in the township to
support the NLD plan for convening parliament, could very well bring them into
direct confrontation with members of the Union Solidarity and Development
Association (USDA) and he therefore gave instructions to Thein Htay to try to
organize the more zealous and active members of the USDA as well. As a
consequence Thein Htay wrote a critique of the USDA with the title "To the
Simple and Honest Lions caught in a Trap" and distributed this subversive
pamphlet.

    U Soe Myint also held a meeting with NLD youths Khin Maung Oo and Mya Sein
and instructed them that on the day parliament was convened, NLD party members
as well as the people should be encouraged and prompted to participate and
support the movement in full strength. So, Khin Maung Oo after enslisting NLD
party member of Dawbon Township Maung Kyaw Aye together, handed out posters
with the slogan "These who obstruct the convening of parliament are the common
enemy" and other slogans in the same vein. U Soe Myint reported to Daw Suu Kyi
the actions they had taken. Daw Suu Kyi had then told him that the most
important thing was to get the people to participate in the movement to
convene parliament in full force. She said that she was determined to achieve
this no matter how high the expense.

11.	In reviewing and analyzing the conditions that led up to these events, it
will be seen that, it originated in a military operation known as the "Naungyo
Plan" which was the brain child of the combined internal and external
opposition forces. Activist Sein Win of the NCGUB which is a just a
subordinate organization of Bo Mya's KNU, initiated it with the goal of
starting and proliferating dissident movements endorsing Daw Suu Kyi's scheme
for convening parliament. They designated the time between 21st July, and 21st
August 1998, as the operational period. This so-called military operation was
to bc led by Moe Thee Zun, Kyaw Kyaw (PD) central committee and Zaw Naing (PD)
with expatriate Sein Win manipulating the string from behind the scenes. To
implement this plan, the local hard-core members of the ABSDF, NLD-LA, the
Democracy Party for New Societly, the special Political Defiance Group and
other political malcontents were to carry out necessary measures from within
the country, whereas those outside the country, together with international
campaing members would do whatever was necessary to acheieve the set goal. A
demand for transfer of power to parliament was to follow close upon the heels
of these various activities in order to exert more pressure.

12.	The main tasks to be carried out to implement this plan was the wide
distribution of leaflets and pamphlets with suitable declarations and demands
in support of Daw Suu Kyi's scheme for the convening of parliament in cities
such as Yangon, Mandalay, Bago, Pathein and Mawlamyaing. Underground and
aboveground opposition parties, organizations, fronts and unions were also to
issue as speedily as possible their position on this matter and to mobilize
and urge their hard-core members with poster and stickers campaigns. They
further planned to use PD (Political Defiance) techniques that would be
clearly obvious to the general public and also make wide use of the telephone
and fax campaign in coordination with those who had easy access to such
instruments and machines and thus step up their instigation campaign. They
were also to infiltrate the workers, government employees, the Sangha and
students masses to implement certain limited opposition movements and to
manipulate the outbreak programmes had thus been co-ordinated and drawn up by
hard core members. In addition, they had also planned to disseminate among the
general public the concept of non-cooperation with the authorities. The media
campaign was to be further enhanced under the supervision of the PD and the
instructions also included systematic arrangements to facilitate fast
communications between the Operational Supervisory Headquarters and the hard
core members. Permit me at this point to explain the acronym PD. It stands for
Political Defiance and political defiance techniques which were widely used by
the western bloc in bringing about the collapse of the Soviet Union. The
technique of Political Defiance thereafter became very popular. Hence the
reason why on the proposal made by ex-military attache Robert Helvey and Gene
Sharp, the NCUB formed the Political Defiance Committee in January, 1993. This
committee employed PD measures with two different lines of approach-the line
of direct contact and that of indirect contact to incite the peoples
opposition to the Government itself and to stage protest and demonstrations
against the political method of the Government. Gene Sharp himself wrote a PD
training manual and conducted courses in two parts to teach the KNU on the use
of PD methods. The KNU has been assigned the task of applying these methods in
the border regions and the NLD has been given the task for use of these
methods within the country.

    ABSU hard-line opposition groups abroad are recipients of aid in cash and
kind from hard-line NGOs. 

13.	The Hard-line leaders of the ABSDF, the Democracy Party for New Society
and the ABSU who took on the responsibility of inciting unrest in the country
to support Daw Suu Kyi's scheme for convening parliament are Yan Aung Soe @ Ye
Htut, Tun Myint Aung, Thet Win Aung, Min Zin and Tharr Swe who were themselves
under the supervision of the PD Central Committee. Min Zin and Tharr Nyunt Oo
together with assistance provided by Aung Moe Zaw of the party for New
Society, had established a separate chapter of the ABSU abroad. It is a known
fact that they are getting financial aid from the JRS and OSI. The JRS is none
but the world-wide organization known as the World Society of Jesuit Refugee
Service. Its headquarters is in the Vatican City in Rome. The JRS based in
Thailand, citing the refugee problem as being of first priority on their
agenda, has been operating on the Thai side of the Thai-Myanmar border and has
established relations with the many insurgent groups, students who have gone
underground and with each and every group that has been opposing Myanmar. As a
matter of fact it is doubtful if the religious leaders of the Vatican are even
aware that the JRS in Thailand has been aiding and abetting these insurgents
and lending them a hand in committing violence and creating unrest in the
country. It is possible that the leaders of the Vatican would be most pained
if they should come to hear of these transgressions.

14.	The OSI known as the Open Society Institute is an organization which was
founded by George Soros in New York in 1970. The professed goals of this
organization when it was first established were to encourage countries
pursuing the closed-door policy to open up; to encourage countries with an
open-door policy to pursue a more liberal way of life and thinking and to
enhance the freedom of society. Later, the goal deviated to the cause of
greater democracy and democracy movement activists in certain countries became
beneficiaries receiving donations from this organization. Thus the reason why
the OSI has had a hand in calling for an international embargo on Myanmar's
endeavours for development, such as the Yadana Natural Gas Exploration Project
and on her tourist industry in order to exert pressure. The OSI is a
subsidiary organization of the Soros Foundation and its representatives are
David Eubank and Maureen Aung Thwin. In February 1998 Maureen Aung Thwin
dispatched Tharr Nyunt Oo and Min Zin to certain European countries at OSI
expense to meet and hold discussions with donors. Later in April 1998 the OSI
arranged another trip for Min Zin to visit France, England, Switzerland and
Belgium for the purpose of soliciting more funds. He received a total of 3000
dollars with which he opened a bank account in the City Bank at Cheingmai in
July 1998, the OSI deposited another 30,000 dollars into Min Zin's account as
expense fund for 1998. These developments prove beyond doubt, that groups such
as these, posing as NGO's are now openly and brazenly providing funds to stir
up unrest and disturbances in the country, giving the flimsy excuse that their
motive is to endorse Daw Suu Kyi's movement for convening parliament.

15.	In the same vein the organization known as the National Endowment for
Democracy based in the United States and another, the International Centre for
Human Rights and Democratic Development of Canada are giving every form of
assistance, to expatriates abroad who are opposing the Government and to all
the insurgent groups, providing not only funds but doing everything possible
to boost their morale. If we take a look at some records of the accounts that
are in our possession, it will be seen that donations to these dissident
groups from 1992 to date amount to a total of 4,745,721 US dollars. These
figures show the donations made by two organizations only. There are bound to
be other large donations which we are not aware of. Moreover, the two
organizations, the OSI and the JRS constitute only the tip of the iceberg for
there are a large number of other groups similarly occupied.

16.    From a review of all the events that have taken place, it will be seen
clearly that the expartriate group led by Sein Win had enlisted additional
external forces from the ABSDF insurgent group, the Democracy Party for New
Society and the ABSU based outside the country to draw up and implement the
Naung Yo Plan to support Daw Suu Kyi's initiative within the country to
convene parliament. It is therefore plain for all to see that Daw Suu Kyi and
the NLD movements within and developments outside the country had been
coordinated and orchestrated beforehand. At the same time the western bloc
countries and so called NGOs in the name of democracy are using all possible
devious means and exerting all kinds of pressure to destabilize the internal
situation, bring about protests and unrest with a view to overthrowing the
present Government, and then transfer power and install a government more to
their liking. On the basis of the facts and evidence presented I wish to make
it quite clear that all the actions perpetrated by Daw Suu Kyi and her NLD
members, the various opposition groups who wish to incite uprisings and the
armed insurgent groups outside the country, are not separate, isolated
actions, but coordinated and pre-planned multiple-pronged attacks.

17.	A further study and careful analysis of the evidence and statistics thus
far presented together with their interwoven connections, will show first,
that some western, neo-colonialist super powers, are giving both financial aid
and manpower assistance to government opposition groups under the camouflage
of democracy and human rights because they wish to bring about the collapse of
our country to install a government that they can influence and manipulate.
Then there are the internal activist groups led by BCP (UG) who have recruited
immature and naive youths by pretending to be championing the student cause.
The next step was to work through these young people to get to their parents
and thus to the general public consisting of workers, peasants and the sangha
in a systematic programme to sow the seeds of discontent and thus create
unrest. You will next see to persistent attempts made by the NLD to wrest
state power which is their one and only goal without giving a second thought
to the resulting danger to the State; and lastly there are the expatriate
activists led by Sein Win who is hypocritically calling for democracy but is
willing to destroy his own country as long as he gets enough funds to maintain
his present life-style abroad as well as that of his followers in the country
who unhesitatingly commit terrorist acts. All these developments lead to only
one answer. And it is that, the NLD group led by Daw Suu Kyi the saboteur, the
expatriate group led by Sein Win and the ABSDF armed insurgents have joined
forces to bring about the disintegration of the Union. They are of course
being funded and assisted by foreign NGOs. Hence the reason why, the genuine
desire of the people have emerged at the people's rallies which are now being
held countrywide. But it is not enough for the people to make explicit their
desires. It is time for the people to join hands to uncover the agents of
destruction. It is imperative now to protect the people and destroy and
eliminate the dangerous and destructive elements in our society.

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