Myanmar to continue taking measures against destructive acts: official announcement
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Save ArticleThe Myanmar government will continue to take preventive measures against more possible destructive acts by internal and external terrorist groups, official media quoted an announcement of the government's Information Committee as warning Sunday.
The rare first announcement of the Information Committee of the State Peace and Development Council in 2007, issued from Nay Pyi Taw, came after some small-scale demonstrations took place in Yangon and other parts of the country since Aug. 19.
The announcement said the authorities have detained 15 activists since Aug. 21, who claimed themselves as "88 Generation Students Group," charging them with sabotaging the constitutional national convention, which just ended on last Monday, and trying to create a dialogue they wanted and to contact foreign-based terrorist organizations for such acts, according to the New Light of Myanmar.
The announcement also accused the group, led by Min Ko Naing, of instigating the people to various campaigns such as signature campaign, the white campaign, white Sunday campaign and prayer meetings to sabotage the convention and inciting popular uprising.
According to the announcement, still another one, Htay Kywe, is found to be hidden in an unidentified foreign embassy of a powerful country.
The announcement cited a lot of facts that the students group collaborated with some anti-government organizations in exile in carrying out terrorist acts against the government since late 1988 when the present government took over the power of state.
These organizations which the announcement mentioned include All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF), Democratic People for a New Society (DPNS), National League for Democracy (Liberated Area) or NLD-LA, National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), Federation of Trade Union-Burma (FTUB) and Democratic Alliance of Burma (DAB).
Of them, the ABSDF, NLD-LA, NCGUB, FTUB were declared by the authorities terrorist organizations in April 2006, while the DPNS was de-registered as a legal political party in December 1991.
Min Ko Naing, once a student leader in 1988 incident, was imprisoned for more than a decade and released in November 2004 for the first time. He was detained again in September 2006 and was freed for the second time in January 2007.
Meanwhile, for the past three weeks, a series of small-scale demonstrations scattered in several locations in the biggest city of Yangon and other places outside Yangon such as Bago, Yenangyaung, Sittway, Labutta and Pakokku seemingly in protest against fuel price raised by the energy authorities on Aug. 15 and other commodities price hike.
These series of demonstrations, charged with instigating to cause unrest in the country, were promptly broken up by the authorities successively.
The authorities described the demonstrations as harming the stability of the state, community peace and rule of law. Security has been tightened against more possible outbreak of demonstrations in the country.
Source: Xinhua
The rare first announcement of the Information Committee of the State Peace and Development Council in 2007, issued from Nay Pyi Taw, came after some small-scale demonstrations took place in Yangon and other parts of the country since Aug. 19.
The announcement said the authorities have detained 15 activists since Aug. 21, who claimed themselves as "88 Generation Students Group," charging them with sabotaging the constitutional national convention, which just ended on last Monday, and trying to create a dialogue they wanted and to contact foreign-based terrorist organizations for such acts, according to the New Light of Myanmar.
The announcement also accused the group, led by Min Ko Naing, of instigating the people to various campaigns such as signature campaign, the white campaign, white Sunday campaign and prayer meetings to sabotage the convention and inciting popular uprising.
According to the announcement, still another one, Htay Kywe, is found to be hidden in an unidentified foreign embassy of a powerful country.
The announcement cited a lot of facts that the students group collaborated with some anti-government organizations in exile in carrying out terrorist acts against the government since late 1988 when the present government took over the power of state.
These organizations which the announcement mentioned include All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF), Democratic People for a New Society (DPNS), National League for Democracy (Liberated Area) or NLD-LA, National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), Federation of Trade Union-Burma (FTUB) and Democratic Alliance of Burma (DAB).
Of them, the ABSDF, NLD-LA, NCGUB, FTUB were declared by the authorities terrorist organizations in April 2006, while the DPNS was de-registered as a legal political party in December 1991.
Min Ko Naing, once a student leader in 1988 incident, was imprisoned for more than a decade and released in November 2004 for the first time. He was detained again in September 2006 and was freed for the second time in January 2007.
Meanwhile, for the past three weeks, a series of small-scale demonstrations scattered in several locations in the biggest city of Yangon and other places outside Yangon such as Bago, Yenangyaung, Sittway, Labutta and Pakokku seemingly in protest against fuel price raised by the energy authorities on Aug. 15 and other commodities price hike.
These series of demonstrations, charged with instigating to cause unrest in the country, were promptly broken up by the authorities successively.
The authorities described the demonstrations as harming the stability of the state, community peace and rule of law. Security has been tightened against more possible outbreak of demonstrations in the country.
Source: Xinhua
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