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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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