Senior NLD leaders not allowed to meet DASSK

DVB ( Feb 23-24 )

Military intelligence personnel of Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) on 17 February stopped and turned back five senior leaders of National League for Democracy (NLD) from seeing their leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who is being kept under house arrest in Rangoon.

One of the leaders, Thakhin Soe Myint told DVB with a tone of despair that all he wants to say is the attempt to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was neither ‘successful’ nor ‘smooth’ but he insisted that the leaders will keep on doing what needed to be done.

He insisted that the junta should not only release NLD leaders but allow them to have discussions among themselves and to have discussions with them.

When asked to give his opinions on current ceasefire talks between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the SPDC, Thakhin Soe Myint said he has nothing to say about it but that he is waiting for the result of the dialogue.

He also urged the junta to be more far-sighted, patient and good-hearted if they really want to help the people of Burma.