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IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REVOKING OF CITIZENSHIP.ANY NATION IN THE
WORLD HAS THE AUTHORITY TO EXILE ANY DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS THAT ARE
DISRUPTING THE NATIONAL UNITY REGARDLESS OF THEIR CITIZENSHIP.IF THEY
ARE FOREIGN CITIZENS, THEY SHOULD AND WOULD BE DEPORTED.IF THEY ARE
CITIZENS OF MYANMAR, THEY SHOULD AND WOULD BE DRIVEN OUT OF THE
COUNTRY UNLESS THEY ARE OF ANY HELP TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATION.


>JUST A REMINDER OF THE RELEVANT BURMESE LAW, IN VIEW >OF THE
REAPPEARENCE OF
>THE PERENNIAL RUMOURS THAT THE JUNTA PLANS TO DEPORT >DAW AUNG SAN
SUU KYI,
>WHO HAS NEVER HAD A BRITISH PASSPORT. SEE, IN >PARTICULAR, PARAS 15,
16 AND 17


Burma Citizenship Law (Pyithu Hluttaw Law No. 4 of 1982)
 ........

3.  Nationals such as the Kachin, Kayah, Karen, Chin, Burman, Mon,
Rakhine
or Shan and ethnic groups as have settled in any of the territories
included within the State as their permanent home from a period prior to
1185 B.E., 1823 A.D. are Burma citizens.
 .....

7.  The following persons born in or outside the State are also
citizens:-

        (a) persons born of parents, both of whom are citizens;

        (b) persons born of parents, one of whom is a citizen and the
other an
associate citizen;

        (c) persons born of parents, one of whom is a citizen and  the
other a
naturalized                   citizen;
 .....

10.     In respect of a citizen born outside the State, the parent or
guardian
shall have his birth registered in the prescribed manner, within one
year
from the date of birth at the Burmese Embassy or Consulate or
organization
prescribed by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

        Proviso.  If registration is not possible within one year from
the date of
birth,                            application may be made by the
parent or
guardian, furnishing                                   sufficient
reasons to the
central body through the Burmese Embassy or
Consulate or organization prescribed by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
 .....

15.     (a) A citizen shall not lose his citizenship merely by
marriage to a
foreigner;
 ......
16.  A citizen who leaves the State permanently, or who acquired the
citizenship of or registers himself as the citizen of another country,
or
who takes out a passport or a similar certificate of another country
ceases
to be a citizen.

17.  The citizenship of a citizen by birth shall not be revoked,
except in
the case of cessation of citizenship under section 16.

[Source: "Working People's Daily" Special Supplement, 16 October 1982]




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