[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index
][Thread Index
]
NEWS - Myanmar Accuses Suu Kyi of P
- Subject: NEWS - Myanmar Accuses Suu Kyi of P
- From: Rangoonp@xxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:20:00
Subject: NEWS - Myanmar Accuses Suu Kyi of Playing Politics Over Expulsion
Myanmar Accuses Suu Kyi of Playing Politics Over Expulsion
AP
28-DEC-98
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Myanmar's military regime
accused pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on
Sunday of "playing politics" by saying she will fight
attempts
to deport her.
Commentaries in the official press have spurred rumors that
the Nobel laureate would be deported early next year, and
pro-government organizations have held mass rallies calling
for her expulsion.
But the government has never announced it plans to deport
her and charged in a news release Sunday that Suu Kyi and
her opposition National League for Democracy were using
the issue to gain political advantage.
The government urged the party to engage in a "more
responsible, constructive cooperation rather than resorting
to
whimsical and symbolic gestures designed merely to attract
attention and create seasonal sensational headlines."
It said the economic crisis in Myanmar was not improving.
"This is no time to be playing politics."
San Suu Kyi has told members of her party that she will not
allow Myanmar's military regime to deport her.
She said in comments last week that they should not be
worried. "I am not a citizen of other countries, and I have
no
intention of leaving this country."
The military has ruled Myanmar, also known as Burma, since
1962.
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 with the military rulers
for
more democracy.
Her party won parliamentary elections in 1990, but the
military never allowed the parliament to meet.
The party 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.
Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.