Narinjara News
Dhaka, February 11
CRPP General Secretary threatened by
SPDC authorities
U Aye Tha Aung, General Secretary of Committee for
Representatives of People Parliament, or CRPP, was recently threatened by
members of Burma’s military government, said a leader of ALD, who lives in
Rangoon.
Three days ago, 3 metropolitan policemen came to U Aye Tha
Aung’s house and forcibly asked him if he is familiar
with Act Section Number 5/96.
Though the facts regarding U Aye Tha Aung’s run-in with the authorities is presently unclear,
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They informed him that CRPP is not a legal organization; that if at anytime CRPP’s policies relate to Section Act 5/96, they will be
subject to the rule of the authorities; and they also asked him if he was aware
if he had a debt of imprisonment.
The police have restricted U Aye Tha Aung from
traveling and are currently closely watching his activities. His telephone line
was cut by the authorities and he is now communicate
with others by use of his son personal mobile phone, said an Arakan resident currently living in
Another prominent Shan ethnic leader, HKun Htoon Oo and Sai Nyunt Lwin from the Shan National League for Democracy (SNLD),
was detained by the military authorities, along with 2 other leaders, on 9 Feb.
According to Rangoon sources, the present political situation in Rangoon is in
a state of turmoil as the National Convention is soon set to resume. All
democracy parties are presently against the convention.
U Aye Tha Aung, who is also the General Secretary of
the Arakan League for Democracy (ALD), was previously
arrested by the authorities in 2000 and was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment.
He was released early, in 2002, due to his deteriorating health in jail.
The CRPP was formed by 12 major political parties including the NLD, ALD, and
other ethnic nationality parties in 1988, in order to call a parliament in
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