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knu statement re nlom



    OFFICE OF THE SUPREME  HEADQUARTERS
              KAREN  NATIONAL  UNION
           KAWTHOOLEI

KNU Statement regarding Article in SPDC New Light of Myanmar
            January 9, 1999

An article in the "New Light of Myanmar" newspaper, dated January 8,
1999, the SPDC alleged that Daw Suu and the KNU are in contact. In
regardful this matter, the KNU has to make a statement as follows. 1.
On august 23, 1998, The SPDC stated that it had to block the trip of
Daw Suu to the delta, because there was the danger of the KNU
assassinating her. Now ,again it is saying that she is in contact with
the KNU. Both the unjustifiable allegations, fabricated by the SPDC ,
are totally groundless. 2. Daw Suu is not the one who has been making
war, killing and destroying the Karen people. She is neither the enemy
of either the KNU or the Karen people. Therefore, there is no reason
for the KNU to try to assassinate Daw Suu. Since the KNU well knows
that the SPDC has been, constantly, attacking and finding fault with
Daw Suu, the KNU has never tried to establish contact with Daw Suu.
Daw Suu also has never tried to do so. We ,the KNU , strongly condemn
the SPDC  for fabricating, wishfully, such falsehood and escalating, a
stage higher, its attack against Daw Suu. 3. Time and again, the KNU
president has explained to the media that there has never been contact
between the KNU  and Daw Suu, though the political stand of Daw Suu
and that of the KNU has the same basis. Accusation Daw Suu by the SPDC
again in such a manner, shows that the SPDC is preparing to perpetrate
more heinous acts. 4. Currently, the SPDC has increased its military
offensive again the KNU and the ethnic forces. At the same time, it is
preparing ground for escalating wanton attacks against Daw Suu. These
are irrational acts of the SPDC dictatorship. They show that the SPDC
is gearing up, insanely, to go a step further for more attacks against

the entire people compresing of all the nationalities. 5. In fact, the
NLD led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, is a legally instituded party, and
the people elected it to victory in the May 1990 general election.
Therefore, the existence and activities of Daw Suu and the NLD are
legitimate, where as the existence, the clinging to power and all
activities of the SPDC are illegitimate. In conclusion, we, the KNU ,
would like to urge all the forces, opposing the military dectatorship,
and the people in the country to be politically alert and united, and
to go further and courageously demolish the lawless activities of the
SPDC military dictatorship.