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Burmese MPs deny collusion with mi
- Subject: Burmese MPs deny collusion with mi
- From: moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:56:00
Subject: Burmese MPs deny collusion with military (BBC World Service)
Tuesday, May 11, 1999 Published at 13:02 GMT 14:02 UK
World: Asia-Pacific
Burmese MPs deny collusion with military
Dissident members of Burma's National League for
Democracy have angrily denied accusations that they
are colluding with the military government to sow
disunity in the party.
The NLD leadership had condemned the group of some
twenty-five elected MPs for drafting a letter calling for
talks with the military junta and criticising the strategy
adopted by the party and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
One of the group, U Than Tun, told the BBC it wanted to
see the NLD leadership try other strategies to break the
political stalemate. He also criticised the NLD's
procedures, which he said were not transparent or
democratic. But Aung San Suu Kyi responded by
repeating that the dissidents were obeying the military
authorities. She said the obstacles facing the NLD made
it very difficult to follow fully democratic procedures, but
that it was following decisions taken at the party
congress held last year.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service