Myanmar junta threatens Suu Kyi wit

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 Myanmar junta threatens Suu Kyi with legal action 
05:18 a.m. Jun 29, 1998 Eastern 

YANGON, June 29 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military junta threatened on Monday
to take legal action against opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her
political party, saying she was on a collision course with the government. 
The warnings were carried in commentaries run by three state-owned
newspapers which said: ``The Myanmar government and its people can no
longer tolerate the acts of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who ignores the interest
of the nation and people.'' 
Similar warnings appeared in the media in the days prior to Suu Kyi's house
arrest in 1989 for nearly six years by the then ruling military government.
The Nobel Peace prize winner was released from detention in mid-1995. 
The country's media are considered mouthpieces of the ruling State Peace
and Development Council (SPDC). 
The latest threat follows demands by Suu Kyi and her National League for
Democracy (NLD) party that the junta convene parliament by August 2 in
accordance with the results of the 1990 election. The NLD swept the
election, but its victory was never recognised by the military. 
The newspaper commentaries cited Law Number 5/96, which they said
prohibited individuals or organisations from ``disturbing, destroying,
obstructing, inciting, delivering speeches, making oral or written
statements and disseminating in order to undermine, belittle and make
people misunderstand the functions being carried out by the National
Convention for the emergence of a firm and enduring Constitution.'' 
They said those convicted for the offence faced a minimum of five years to
a maximum of 20 years in jail. 
During the eighth anniversary celebration of the NLD's 1990 election
victory late last month, Suu Kyi demanded that the SPDC convene parliament
to facilitate a session of elected members of parliament. 
The SPDC bluntly rejected her call and said parliament could not be
convened without the completion of a new national constitution being
drafted by a government-appointed National Convention. 
The Convention was set up in early 1993. It has not met since 1996,
although the junta says two thirds of the new charter is complete. 
The NLD walked out of the Convention some months after Suu Kyi's release
from detention, calling it a sham. 
Suu Kyi has repeatedly sought talks with the military but the junta flatly
refuses to deal with her. 
She has accused the military of abusing human rights and curbing her
party's political activities. 
The newspapers said Suu Kyi was being used by the West to undermine the
junta and the national interests of Myanmar. 
``Daw Suu Kyi ignored the interests of the nation and the people. Instead,
she got so conceited that she acted like a dictator within the party and
made trouble with her reliance on West at the expense of improving
stability, peace and development in the country,'' said the commentary. 
``Aung San Suu Kyi should take a good lesson from the case of former
President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, who was used by the Western bloc,
but he did not win public support'' it added. 
Ngo Dinh Diem was executed after a bloody coup in Vietnam in 1963.