NDD denounces arrests of activists

DVb ( July 28,2003 )

Thailand-based Network for Democracy and Development (NDD) strongly denounced the SPDC in a statement for the imprisonments of four NLD members from Singu Township and the trials of three Mandalay Division NLD members.

DVB’s Naw Nandar Chan reports:

Naw Nandar Chan : Although the SPDC has announced on the 18th of July that it has released 91 people in connection with the Dipeyin incident, it has also been arresting the NLD members throughout the country in connection with the incident, said the statement. The NDD has released a statement on the unfairness of the SPDC’s action and the network’s chairman U Kyaw Kyaw told DVB the reason for releasing the statement as follows:

U Kyaw Kyaw : Although the SPDC is saying that it has released the people in connection with the Dipeyin incident, it is clear that it continues to arrest the NLD members and the local people who have been enthusiastically supporting Daw Aung San Suu Kyi during her trips. The generals are saying one thing on the one hand and on the other, they are continuing the arrests of NLD members and their supporters. We need more pressures from the international community. They need to pressurise and force the SPDC to head towards democracy in Burma and to immediately release all the people who matter including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and to talk to them by means of dialogue.