We members of All Burma Students Democratic Organization (Australia) are outraged to learn the report from Reuters that 150 people's representatives are being detained as the hostages and the Committee Representing People's Parliament CRPP must be scrapped in exchange as ransom. Win Aung Foreign minters of SPDC regime revealed on Tuesday 27 April 99 that military would release jailed Members of Parliament -elect and members of the opposition National League for Democracy, if the NLD agrees to dissolve a parliamentary committee, Committee Representing People's Parliament it formed in September 1998. We strongly condemn the inhumane military regime for indefinitely holding people's representatives, students, dissidents as hostages ignoring their human and democratic rights. We believe those MPs in detention (so-called government guesthouse) are legitimate elected representatives of the people therefore military junta hold no authority to detain them. We also want to insist that 10-person -strong CRPP is a lawful committee established by 251 members of Parliament. In the make the blatant denial of the junta to the call to convene the people assembly by 21 August 1998, the CRPP was founded by the MPs from National League for Democracy (which won 82% of the seats) and ethnic parties Its main objective is was to accomplish the task to convene the People's Parliament as per 1990 elections result which brutal junta shamelessly refuse to honor. We are very concerned over the tactics of SPDC forcing some NLD- MPs to criticize and weaken Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and CRPP . We are confident that the collaboration of the regime and renegade MPs will not end up in dissolution of the CRPP which we support as a legitimate people's representative committee. It is the illegal SPDC regime who always applies cruel method to divide and conquer over the democratic movement as they did over the ethnic resistance forces. Eventually, military regime will have to listen to the democratic aspiration of the people and it has been proved that dictatorships are bound to be defeated by the power of the people .. We believe that there is still room for peaceful solution if SPDC is sincere in seeking national reconciliation . The immediate step to take is to respect desire of the people and enter genuine dialogue with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi -led CRPP. At the same time we are greatly dis-appointed on the soft response from international community especially Australian government in lacking concrete tough actions (i e . economic sanctions and boycotts) to pressure over the regime. At the recent Human rights commission in Geneva Daw Aung San Suu Kyi presented a message in which she said the situation in Burma was getting worse and the world had yet to take full notice of it. She emphasized that there is a need for continued action on the part of international community. We hereby urge the international intensify the support to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led- CRPP to fulfill the will of people of Burma. We urge international community to recognize Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led-CRPP as the legitimate highest authority of people of Burma and its lawful right to convene the People's Parliament as per 1990 elections result. We urge the SPDC regime to enter peaceful dialogue with CRPP . We urge the immediate release of all political prisoners including student leader Min Ko Naing We urge the re-opening of all universities and colleges and recognize the establishment of student Union. Central Committee All Burma Students Democratic Organization ( Australia) 2nd May 1999 , Sydney- Australia Further information please contact ABSDO office 1A Vaughan Street, Lidcombe 2141 NSW Australia Phone and fax : 612 96435015 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.tripod.com/~thadoe_aung/absdo.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Does your free web site address contain more letters than the alphabet? Register a domain name with DomainDirect. A domain with NO hosting fees. Visit http://clickhere.egroups.com/click/49 for full details. eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/group/9999action http://www.eGroups.com - Simplifying group communications -- Alister Air | "Excuse me for not answering your Faculty Computing Manager (HSS) | letter sooner, but I've been so Information Technology Division | busy not answering letters that I University of Technology Sydney | couldn't get round to not answering Ph: 9514 1277 Fx: 9514 1595 | yours in time." --Marx, Groucho.--
