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Subject: SPECIAL FEATURE : Practising Universal Rules In The Protection Of National Security And Interest

SOURCE:  Information  Sheet No.B-1173 (I) 6th December, 1999
           MYANMAR INFORMATION COMMITTEE, YANGON

Special Feature

This office is presenting one of the chapters from the 21st Edition 
of the booklet "Political Situation of Myanmar and Its Role In The Region" 
for your information.

Practising Universal Rules In The Protection Of National Security And Interest

More specifically and importantly what most people do not realize is that in 
many instances Ms. Suu Kyi is erroneously being referred to as an elected 
person or
in some instances as an elected president. Ms. Suu Kyi never stood for the 
election because she was not eligible to contest for a seat. It was not this 
present military government or the previous socialist government that refused 
Ms. Suu Kyi the right to stand for elections but ironically it was her own 
father, Myanmar national hero General Aung San, who wrote into the original 
constitution, subsequently  romulgated in 1948, a clause with the provision 
that "any person who
is under any acknowledgement of allegiance or adherence to a foreign power, 
or a subject or citizen is entitled to the rights and privileges of a subject 
or citizen of a foreign power." Thus she is not entitled to contest for a 
seat in the country's
elections. Ms. Suu Kyi resided abroad for twenty-eight years and married an 
Englishman (Giving her the rights to U.K. citizenship) and has 2 children 
both holding
British citizenships. This present military government has to, as all the 
previous successive Myanmar Governments did, continue in honouring this 
clause and
the present national convention has also committed itself to continue to 
honour the said clause. This type of constitutional condition is implemented 
by many governments including those of developed nations. It is quite 
understandable that Governments do not wish to have someone in office who 
could be unduly
influenced by any other nation or power. As a preventive measure certain 
rules and regulations are universally drawn up and put into effect to serve 
as a mechanism in protecting the national security as well as the national 
interest of respective countries.
    There is also another assumption which is as
erroneous as referring to Ms. Suu Kyi as an elected
person, is that her being under house restriction
during the election period denied her the right to run
for the 1990 election. While under house restriction
the Government of Myanmar consented to Ms. Suu Kyi's
request to contest in elections representing Bahan
Township Constituency(1) and her name was enrolled on
2nd December 1989. Objections  were lodged by various
individuals and political parties against the
permission granted to Ms. Suu Kyi to contest the
forthcoming elections with reference to the provisions
of the Pyithu Hluttaw Election Law of 1989. Legally,
granting Ms. Suu Kyi the right to contest the election
was found to violate and contravene the following 3
articles.
    (1) Section (8-b) "Law for people residing in the
Union of Myanmar." Ms. Suu Kyi has given her permanent
address where she resides with her husband Dr.Michael
Aris and 2 sons at 15, Park Town Oxford, London in
United Kingdom. Ms. Suu Kyi's name has not been
registered at her mother's residence in Yangon which
indicates that she is not a permanent resident of
Myanmar.
    (2) Section (10-e). " Persons  who are under any 
acknowledgement  of allegiance or adherence to a
foreign power, or are subjects or citizens or entitled
to  the rights and privileges of a subject or a
citizen of a foreign Power." Ms. Suu Kyi is enjoying
the right to reside in U.K. indefinitely but apart 
from the right to vote. She enjoys all other 
privileges a British Citizen can enjoy.
    (3) Section (10-h)." Members of organization in armed
revolt  against the State, persons  against whom there
is sufficient grounds of having links with the said
organization or  with its members to revolt." Ms.Suu
Kyi was found to be communicating, collaborating and
harbouring a member of the armed terrorist group and
this terrorist was arrested in her residential
compound in Yangon  together with substantial
evidence.
    Due to the above mentioned factors Ms. Suu Kyi was
found ineligible to contest the 1990 elections.
Technically it was not because she was under house
restriction during the election time. More
importantly, Section 10-e of the May 1989 Election Law
was not a provision drawn up by the present military
government but was originally drafted by her own
father, General Aung San, the National Leader of
Modern Myanmar in his (1947) Independence Constitution
which was later to be honoured and again put in the
(1974) Constitution.
    Again, in a similar scenario the NLD party is
constantly and erroneously referred to as an
opposition party. In fact, the Government of Myanmar
does not regard the NLD or any other 9 legally
existing political parties as opposition parties since
the Government regards itself not as a political party
but as a transitional government (A National
Institution) taking the responsibility of discarding
the Socialist One-Party System practising a Socialist
Economy and paving the way for a Multi-Party Democracy
by introducing a Market-Oriented Economy. In the
meantime, for the benefit and interest of the nation,
this present government is in the process of
establishing and founding national unity, peace,
stability and all-round  development in the country so
that Myanmar shall become in a reasonable period of
time, a peaceful, prosperous and modern developed
nation.
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Mg Myanmar
A Myanmar citizen who loves Myanmar

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