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Myanmar junta warns youth to beware of 'destructive traitors'
YANGON, Aug 28 (AFP) - Myanmar's military rulers have warned the country's
youth to beware of "destructive traitors" campaigning for a mass uprising
next month, state-run media reported Saturday.
Powerful first secretary Khin Nyunt said "all the people need to see to it
that student youths are not lead astray by destructive traitors," according
to the English language New Light of Myanmar.

The All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF) said Friday that 29 high
school students, some as young as 14, had been charged after a series of
anti-junta demonstrations in the southern town of Mergui this month.

The ABSDF said the students were facing up to seven year in jail, possibly
with hard labour.

The junta has rejected reports of student uprisings as "complete
fabrications" and said the Myanmar people were ignoring calls for a mass
uprising on September 9.

However Khin Nyunt told a gathering of primary teachers "the youth
themselves need to know right from wrong, to safeguard the nation and the
people and to oppose traitors."

He said students, who have for decades been at the forefront of the
democracy movement, were "gullible" and called on all teachers to instill
"patriotism and union spirit" into their young charges.

"Effective action will be taken against destructive elements wishing to
destroy the nation and to cause panic among the people," he said.

Exiled student groups and dissidents have called for a mass uprising on
September 9 -- or 9/9/99. The symbolic date has led it to be known as the
"Four Nines Movement."

August 8 this year marked the 11th anniversary of an earlier uprising, known
as 8/8/88, in which hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators were gunned down
and a junta took power from strongman General Ne Win.

That anniversary passed peacefully, but exile groups have said Myanmar's
people have an "appointment" with September 9 to repeat the events of 1988
and end the military's 37-year rule.

Nobel peace laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has warned that
the military is using the "Four Nines Movement" as a pretext to tighten its
grip.

"I think they are using it as an excuse for cracking down," she said in an
interview with AFP earlier this week.

Aung San Suu Kyi led the National League for Democracy to an overwhelming
victory in 1990 elections, but the military ignored the results.