Myanmar military gives opposition n

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Myanmar military gives opposition new warning 
01:29 a.m. Jul 09, 1998 Eastern 

YANGON, July 9 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government on Thursday issued
a new warning to the opposition that their activities would land them in
trouble. 

State-run newspapers said: ``There is ample evidence that the National
League for Democracy (NLD) (has) committed political, economic and social
conspiracies with reliance on the international colonialist bloc.'' 

The papers, regarded as a mouthpiece of the ruling government, said Myanmar
would not be shaken by opposition attempts to stir disorder in the country
``through concoctions and rumours.'' 

A government statement obtained by Reuters on Wednesday accused the
opposition of spreading rumours that violent unrest could be expected in
Myanmar on Martyr's Day on July 19 and on August 8, the 10th anniversary of
student street protests in 1988 which the military crushed. 

On Tuesday, security officials stopped NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi and
three other NLD party members travelling with her by car at Shwe Mya Yar
village, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Yangon. 

The junta prevented Suu Kyi from continuing further north to Min Hla
township to meet another party member, saying it was for her own security
and to prevent her from creating political unrest. 

But the military said local authorities had arranged to bring the party
member from Min Hla township to Shwe Mya Yar village to meet Suu Kyi on
Wednesday. 

Suu Kyi, the 1993 Nobel Peace laureate who was released by the military
from six years of house arrest in mid-1995, and the NLD won a 1990
election, but the military ignored the result. 

The NLD have been calling for the government to convene a parliament
consisting of the winners of the 1990 election before August 21. 

A Yangon-based diplomat said this week the opposition had turned up the
heat on the government to test how far it would go to curb the NLD's
activities. 

But the diplomat said that the situation in the Myanmar capital Yangon
remained calm with no signs of stepped up security.