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Re: Reuters- Myanmar takes precautions on Suu Kyi security
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Are these the kind of security measures SPDC is now talking about ?

  (1) The security officer assigned at the gate of Daw Aung San Suu 
      Kyi's residence was asked to cause bodily harm to her after
      creating a melle deliberatly.
  (2) Her life had been threatened publically in the SPDC run news 
      paper- The New Light Of Myanmar.
  
  
Don't tell us now, that you intend to step up the security for her after 
this weird Nigerian government officials visit at this time. What are 
you trying to cook, now, cowards. You think you are covered just by 
issuing a statement like this. You are to be blamed and you will be if 
it happens. You can't hide it. The threats came from no one but the 
SPDC. The paper said it all. 


Minn Kyaw Minn
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>Myanmar takes precautions on Suu Kyi security 
>06:03 a.m. Jul 14, 1998 Eastern 
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>By Sutin Wannabovorn 
>
>BANGKOK, July 14 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military junta is taking steps 
to
>boost security for opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to avoid blame if 
she
>is harmed, its officials said on Tuesday. 
>
>``If she (Suu Kyi) gets shot then somebody will put the blame on the
>government, would they not? When (Moshood) Abiola died everybody put 
the
>blame on the Nigerian government,'' said a visiting government official 
who
>declined to be identified. 
>
>``So we have imposed preventive measures on her security, for state
>security and for everything,'' he told Reuters in Bangkok. 
>
>The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) on Sunday said it feared
>unidentified anti-government elements might use rising political 
tensions
>between the government and the Suu Kyi-led National League for 
Democracy
>(NLD) to harm the opposition leader. 
>
>The tensions escalated after Suu Kyi demanded the SPDC convene 
parliament
>by August 21 with elected representatives from a May 1990 election, 
which
>the NLD swept but the military ignored. 
>
>The military also said it had increased surveillance of NLD MPs to 
prevent
>them from upsetting plans to reopen institutions of higher learning 
that
>were closed in December 1996 after student unrest. 
>
>Rumours have also circulated of possible violence or political unrest 
ahead
>of the July 19 Martyrs' Day and August 8 anniversary of the 1988
>pro-democracy student uprising that was crushed by the military. 
>
>Martyrs' Day commemorates the assassination on July 19, 1947, of Suu 
Kyi's
>father, the architect of the country's independence from British rule. 
>
>Myanmar's Information Minister, Major-General Kyi Aung, who led a
>delegation to a five-day ASEAN (Association of South East Asian 
Nations)
>Information Ministers' meeting which ended here on Tuesday, denied news
>reports that the SPDC was harassing and detaining opposition members. 
>
>``It is not true. They have tongues, so they can speak anything. 
Instead,
>we are even more relaxed on her,'' he said. 
>
>``Yes, some people were arrested for wrongdoings but we don't have
>political prisoners in our country,'' Kyi Aung said. 
>
>The opposition claims that the junta holds hundreds of political 
prisoners
>in its jails and is abusing human rights. 
>
>The minister said Myanmar planned to relax its Communication Act to 
allow
>more access in the country to the Internet and the use of computer 
modems. 
>
>``It will be possible to use Internet and modems to file stories from
>Myanmar in the near future,'' Kyi Aung said. 
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