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Burmese media attacks NLD
Jan 27, 2005 (DVB) - The Burmese junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) is again attacking the main opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD) for proposing reconciliatory measures.
An author with the pen name “Maung Layla”, writing in this week Myanmar Times with an article titled “Let’s build a new country with new ideas and views”, accused the NLD of being an organisation trying to hamper the development of the country by writing letters to the SPDC chairman General Than Shwe demanding him to initiate a programme of “deleting the past deeds” for political dialogues.
The SPDC authorities have been forcing all magazines and journals in Rangoon to feature the junta’s propagandas, but the latest article directly attacks the NLD proposal for national reconciliations and the prospect for the future is not good, said a Burmese veteran politician Thakhin Chan Tun who read the article. He added that the frontal attack on the NLD is an attempt to portray the party as an unreasonable group despite its reconciliatory efforts, flexibility and compromising stance.
Thakhin Chan Tun also expressed his despair at the junta’s hard-line attitude on the NLD while people are hoping that there could be some compromises before the resumption of the junta-sponsored “National Convention”. He also urged the junta to solve the problems before they become larger as there have been some problems within the army, and to learn the fates of the ousters powerful generals in the past.
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