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JUNTA'S POLITICAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE



Subject: JUNTA'S POLITICAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE GETS MOVING 


JUNTA'S POLITICAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE GETS MOVING 

The Political Affairs Committee formed and led by General Khin Nyunt, the
all-powerful intelligence chief, does not appear to be standing idle,
according to reports coming from the Shan States.

The long shelfed Army Organizing Committee has been reactivated, for one
thing. It?s 27 September directive No: 3 / 98 instructs the Army to form
organizing committees at all levels beginning with company level upwards.
The aims and objectives were reported as ?to be able to shoulder the
national political responsibility and to remain an invulnerable force? the
formation of the committees were to be completed on 30 September and they
were to begin work on 1 October. 

It was also reported that the non-Burman political parties have begun to
feel the screw tightening on them also. The junta is increasingly demanding
them to make a clear choice between the NLD and itself. 

?It looks like the junta doesn't want a tripartite dialogue. Instead, it is
ill-advisedly working towards a bipartite one and ultimately a monopartite
i.e. themselves?, said the source. 

As to the question of the junta?s recent move coinciding with the UN
Assistant Secretary General?s visit, the source could make no comment. 

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S.H.A.N. (Shan Herald Agency for News) 
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