CNN/AP: ASSK WON'T LET SPDC TO DEPO

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Subject: CNN/AP: ASSK WON'T LET SPDC TO DEPORT HER



                 Pro-democracy leader won't let government deport her

                  December 26, 1998 

                  YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San
Suu Kyi has
                  told members of her pro-democracy party that she will not
allow Myanmar's
                  military regime to deport her. 

                  The opposition National League for Democracy said in a
statement obtained
                  today that Suu Kyi told members last week not to worry
about rumors that she
                  would be deported after the new year. 

                  "Party members should not be worried of my deportation,"
Suu Kyi said. "I am
                  not a citizen of other countries, and I have no intention
of leaving this country." 

                  Suu Kyi is married to a British academic, Michael Aris.
The government often
                  refers to her a spy and puppet of foreign nations,
particularly former colonial
                  ruler Britain and the United States. 

                  "I am not a British citizen, and my conscience is clear,"
Suu Kyi said. "How
                  can a government deport its citizen if there is no
country to accept him or her?" 

                  The ruling State Peace and Development Council has
recently organized mass
                  rallies demanding Suu Kyi be deported, a call echoed by
commentaries in
                  official newspapers. 

                  Suu Kyi, daughter of independence hero Aung San, has
spent most of the past
                  decade under house arrest or had her movements restricted
in a struggle for
                  more democracy with the military rulers of Myanmar, known
also as Burma. 

                  Though she was under house arrest at the time, her party
won parliamentary
                  elections allowed by the military in 1990. The ruling
council of generals never
                  allowed the parliament to meet. Suu Kyi won the Nobel
prize in 1991. 

                  The National League for Democracy launched a campaign
earlier this year to
                  convene the parliament unilaterally, triggering a roundup
of hundreds of
                  members. Only those promising to quit her party have been
freed.