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REMIT: Myanmar Says Over 2,000 Oppo



Subject: REMIT: Myanmar Says Over 2,000 Opposition Members Resign

There are reports and witnesses to prove that the rallies and
resignation were coerced.  Burma's own laws state that these
resignations are illegal and declared illegitamite by the NLD.

Myanmar Says Over 2,000 Opposition Members Resign

            Reuters
            02-DEC-98

            YANGON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Myanmar state media said on
            Wednesday more than 2,000 members of the opposition
            National League for Democracy (NLD) had resigned since
            October because they no longer wanted to be involved in
            politics. 

            The official Myanma News Agency (MNA) said 2,012 NLD
            members had left the party and 17 NLD party offices had
            been dissolved by their members in the wake of a series of
            anti-NLD rallies in Myanmar cities. 

            It said NLD members had "resigned from the party of their
            own volition since they had no desire to carry out political
            activities of (the) NLD." 

            NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi said last month the
            resignations and closures of its offices were a result of
            coercion by the military government. 

            The government has put intense pressure on the party since
            it promised in August to convene a parliament of
            representatives elected at the country's last democratic
            election in 1990. 

            The NLD won that poll by a wide margin but the result was
            ignored by the military, who said the country was not yet
            ready for democracy. 

            The military have rounded up and detained hundreds of NLD
            members and representatives in recent months to prevent
            them from carrying out their threat to convene a parliament. 

            Some have since been released. 

            Suu Kyi has said the NLD has 352 local party offices
            throughout Myanmar.