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Ms Suu Kyi: now she may face jail f
Subject: Ms Suu Kyi: now she may face jail for up to 20 years.
Burma moves on Suu Kyi's party
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Rangoon, Friday: Burma's military government had issued an order
authorising the Home Ministry to ban Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's National
League for Democracy and imprison its members, state-run Radio Rangoon
reported today.
The order, signed by Senior General Than Shwe, gave the ministry
power to ban any organisation violating laws against unlawful gatherings
or obstructing the development of a constitution through the Government's
National Convention, the report said.
Effective immediately, members of a banned organisation could be
given prison sentences of five to 20 years and fines if found guilty of
encouraging or instigating activities which "adversely affect the
national interest".
Thousands of supporters have gathered outside Ms Suu Kyi's
residence every weekend since she was fred last July from six years of
house arrest, despite a prohibition on gatherings of more than five
people for political purposes.
The NLD was told yesterday that the party would be banned if it
went ahead with a resolution adopted at a party congress last week to
draft an alternative constitution and continued to hold the public meetings.
NLD officials said they would go ahead with the meetings this
weekend despite the threats.
Generals and the Government-controlled media had been
intensifying their attacks on the NLD.
[AFP, 8 June 96].
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