NLD youth group writes to SPDC over Tabayin incident

DVB ( July 6, 2003 )

It is reported the NLD Youth members have written a letter to the SPDC’s Chairman Sr Gen Than Shwe urging him to make enquiries into the Dipeyin incident and take all necessary actions as soon as possible. The letter was signed by 106 members and it was sent to the general on the first of July. The letter contains three main demands: the immediate releases of all people who are detained including the NLD leaders U Tin Oo and Daung Aung San Suu Kyi, to re-open all the nation-wide NLD offices and to arrest and try all those who perpetrated the Dipeyin incident.

Moreover, the letter expresses the youths’ serious concern for all the victims of the incident who were brutally and inhumanely attacked by a group of thugs. The youths also express their worries and concerns for the efforts to make Burma democratic because of the arrests of the NLD leaders and the closures of the NLD offices throughout the country. They also urge the government to tell the people what really happened at Dipeyin and to issue the precise list of the names of the people who were killed, detained and still missing.