MI steps up security measures

DVB ( August 11,2003)

The SPDC’s military intelligence (MI) agents steadily have been watching the movements of the people of Burma in recent days and in some towns, homes have been raided and searched.

At Pegu, the local police and MI forces are searching homes with the excuse of finding papers and reports relating Dipeyin incident. They are particularly concentrating on the houses of NLD members.

Some members and youth went into hiding for fear of being arrested. The security and intelligence forces have been searching homes in Pegu and nearby Okkan since yesterday but they are still to find the papers relating to Dipeyin incident.

Last month, the SPDC arrested four people in Pegu in connection with bomb blasts throughout the country. The authorities are seriously worried that people might stage some protests on the 15th anniversary of the 8888 uprising tomorrow and searching their homes, according to local people.

Similarly, the NLD members in Bassein, Irrawaddy Division have been subjected to interrogations and monitoring since the arrest of Ko Aye Win who demanded the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other NLD leaders.

Moreover, the NLD members are being put under pressures for writing letters to the SPDC through NLD’s MPs, Women and Youth organisations. The NLD members dare not stay at their own home and go into hiding to evade the arrests, said a NLD member in Bassein.