NLD Statement 4(1/99)in English

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National League for Democracy
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STATEMENT- 4(1/99)


1. Despite the fact that the National League for Democracy is a legally 
constituted political party and is engaged in legitimate political 
duties, the rulers who have taken state power and the executive bodies 
appointed by them are illegally interfering, preventing, destroying, and 
extinguishing the party.

2. Adopting a process in conformity with law, the NLD announced its 
intention to assemble the People's Parliament. The immediate reaction by 
the Military Intelligence authorities was illegal arrests and 
imprisonment of not only the elected members of parliament but also NLD 
organising committee members at all levels (State, Division, Township, 
Ward, Village), ordinary members, and members of working groups formed 
by the central executive committee.

3. Furthermore, members of parliament have been forced to resign their 
positions as elected representatives and from the party; others have 
been forced to resign from their positions and from the party  by 
threats, intimidation and illegal forceful pressure from members of the 
military intelligence units for which there is not one iota of legal 
justification.

4.  In so doing , the military intelligence authorities have committed 
criminal offences. The individuals against whom such illegal arrests and 
action have been taken are aggrieved and injured. Therefore, on the 
thirty first day of December 1998, the Chairman of the National League 
for Democracy lodged a criminal complaint against the Director General 
of the Military Intelligence Services under Section 4(a) of the 
Judiciary Law and the Criminal Procedure Code to the Chief Justice of 
the Union of Burma for adjudication by the proper court.


Central Executive Committee
National League for Democracy

6 January 1999












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