NLD meeting monitored by authorities

by Phanidar & Myint Maung

Friday, 20 June 2008 21:21

Chiang Mai, New Delhi – The Burmese military junta authorities have been closely watching the National League for Democracy (NLD) youth wing meeting. Security personnel kept an eye while the meeting was in progress.  The Swanahshin, riot police and intelligence personnel arrived at the party office this morning in police and prison vans while the opposition political party was holding its regular meeting at the party office in Bahan Township, Rangoon.  "There are eight Swanahshin vehicles at the Kyaukse Prayer Hall, adjacent to the party office. Swanahshin members are sitting there. Five Swanahshin Toyota Dyna light trucks with about 200 men are waiting in the Yuzana Centre premises across the Old Yetashe Road," a party official of the NLD Youth Information Department said.  The Youth wing leaders from 30 townships in Rangoon Division held their bi-annual meeting last month and deliberated on their constitutional referendum experiences, a party official of the Information Department said.  "I think they became anxious after watching all youth leaders come to hold this meeting," a youth wing leader who attended the meeting said.  Ministry of Home Affairs sources said that intelligence personnel are keeping a record of the youth leaders who attended the meeting.  < Prev   Next >