NLD members resume meetings throughout Burma

DVB, February 11

Members of National League of Democracy (NLD) are resuming monthly meetings throughout Burma for the first time since the notorious Dipeyin incident occurred on 30 May 2003.

NLD members from Irrawaddy and Mandalay Divisions and Arakan State held meetings at respective places to discuss future political plans and clarify past actions.

NLD party leaders and members from 5 townships in Myaungmya District, Irrawaddy Division in lower Burma held a meeting on 15 January and discussed the military junta sponsored ‘National Convention’.

The elected representative of Myaungmya U Aung Kyin told DVB that they tried to clarify different opinions among the members on NLD’s walkout on the convention in 1995.

The local authorities also came to take the names of party members who wrote letters to the local election commission on the re-opening of offices and Dipeyin incident.

Similarly, NLD activists in Woon-Twin and Meikhtila Townships in Mandalay Divisions and Arakan State have been holding regular meetings, according to their leaders.