Released NLD youth vows to continue activities

DVB ( 2 Feb 2004 )

Ko Myint Ngwe, the chief youth organiser of upper Burma National League for Democracy (NLD) who was released recently by Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) vowed to carry on his social and political activities despite the arrests and harassments by the junta’s military intelligence agents.

He told DVB that he was arrested on 21 January by the authorities because he stamped the NLD seal on HIV/AIDS prevention leaflets and distributed them to people.

The leaflets were jointly produced by the NLD and United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) and Ko Myint Ngwe has been distributing them for more than two years.

Before he was released, prison authorities attempted to force him sign an agreement stopping him from distributing leaflets. He refused and he was released without exception.

He told DVB that he was released not because the kindness of the authorities but sheer pressures from local people and democracy activists.

Ko Myint Ngwe was also arrested during the notorious 30 May Dipeyin incident for his role as a bodyguard of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and imprisoned nearly 8 months at Khamti Prison in northern Burma.