Reuter: SLORC Wants DASSK to Leave

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Subject: Reuter: SLORC Wants DASSK to Leave Burma

SLORC Wants Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to Leave Burma
 
    RANGOON, July 1 (Reuter) - Burmese official media on Monday urged
pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to abandon politics and said people
were afraid other women would follow her and marry foreign men.
     "What should she do? Some ask her to leave the country. But ... she
should try to abandon politics and cooperate in serving the people by using
what she has studied," said the commentary in state-run Burmese-language
newspapers.
     "Followers generally follow in the footsteps of their leader. If Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi became leader, most women would follow in her footsteps
(and marry foreigners)."
     The commentary follows a vein similar to others published in Burma
over the past month.
     Suu Kyi, who is married to British academic Michael Aris, is the
leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party.
     The NLD won a landslide victory in a 1990 election but was never
allowed to take power because the ruling State Law and Order Restoration
Council (SLORC) did not recognise the results.
     Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace prize winner, has been calling for
democracy and dialogue with the military rulers ever since she was released
from six years of house arrest last July.
     But the SLORC has not answered her request and recently launched a
sweeping crackdown on democracy politicians, arresting more than 250
dissidents ahead of a controversial NLD congress in late May.
     Monday's newspapers also reported that the Myanmar (Burma) Writers and
Journalists Association voiced their support for the SLORC and denounced
"destructionists" trying to upset the nation's stability.
     At the end of a three-day meeting of the association, joint secretary
Tin Tun Oo called on members to support the government and denounce
subversives.
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