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Subject: Reuters-Myanmar toilet papers call for action against Suu Kyi 

Myanmar papers call for action against Suu Kyi
06:05 a.m. Aug 02, 1999 Eastern
YANGON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - A commentary in Myanmar's state newspapers on
Monday accused opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of ``brazenly spoiling
peace'' and reiterated a call for legal action against her.

The official Myanma News Agency (MNA), meanwhile, quoted powerful
intelligence chief Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt as saying opponents of the
military government had been plotting to incite unrest next month.

The commentary carried by the Myanmar-language ``Kyemon'' and ``Myanma
Alin'' newspapers accused Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy of
destroying national reconciliation.

``Especially Daw Suu Kyi is brazenly spoiling peace,'' it said. The
commentary, signed ``An Advocate,'' accused Suu Kyi and her cousin Sein Win,
who heads a government in exile, of seeking foreign assistance, colluding
with the outlawed Karen National Union insurgents, and of trying to disrupt
ceasefire agreements between the government and other ethnic groups.

``She is cutting the union into pieces so the neo-colonialists can swallow
it piece by piece after its disintegration. Once she succeeds in her work,
the union will be in bloodshed.''

Suu Kyi should no longer be tolerated and forgiven, it said.

``I hereby suggest on behalf of the nationalities of the Union that the
government should take effective action against her in accord with the
prevailing laws.''

The official papers in Myanmar are usually considered the mouthpiece of the
military government, but similar calls against Suu Kyi since her release
from six years' house arrest in 1995 have not resulted in legal action
against her.

Khin Nyunt, considered the most powerful figure in the ruling State Peace
and Development Council, on Sunday accused opponents of plotting unrest to
mark ``four nines'' day -- September 9, 1999.

``They are attempting to create disturbances like the four-eight riots,''
MNA quoted him as telling an Interior Ministry meeting.

Khin Nyunt was referring to August 8, 1988, the date taken to mark the start
of a nationwide democracy uprising the military crushed the following month.


Khin Nyunt accused foreign broadcasting stations of ``spreading propaganda
with a view to panicking the people saying that it will be 'four nines' this
time.''

``Those who are involved in this matter and how they are involved are
becoming reasonably clear now. The people will be informed about it when
time is ripe,'' he added.

After the 1988 uprising, the government accused the British Broadcasting
Corporation of inciting unrest by publicising a student call for mass
demonstrations on September 8, 1988.

The Mynamar-language services of Voice of America and Radio Free Asia have
carried reports recently quoting dissidents in exile as calling for
anti-government protests on September 9.