KNU Statement on SPDC Remark

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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

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=AB On 23-8-98, an SPDC spokesperson said that the SPDC had to bar Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi on her way to Bassein (Pathein), because of the danger of
assassination by the KNU. In respect of this allegation, the KNU has to
clarify as follows.=20


1. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is neither the enemy of the KNU nor the Karen
people. Moreover, the KNU as well as the Karen people, supports Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi's stand and effort for the establishment of democracy,
federalism and her opposition to domination of the military dictatorship,
and her current effort for convening the parliament. Therefore, the
remark by the SPDC and the spreading of the idea by its news media are
merely calumny against the KNU. =20


2. If there is any danger of assassination to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, there
is no doubt that it must come from the SPDC or its loyal lackeys, who
have regarded her as the principal enemy and threatened, time and time
again, to annihilate her. Accordingly, if there is any incident against
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's security, the SPDC must be held totally
responsible.=20


3. The KNU and the Karen people still have to bear the cruel and barbaric
military attacks and widespread human rights violations by the SPDC, and
have to carry on their resistance. In its resistance, the KNU has never
taken military activities to the urban areas and areas where there is
people's movement. If there is any military activities in the said areas,
it must be the deliberate act of the SPDC to create confusion.



KNU Supreme Headquarters

August 24, 1998=20

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