The Myanmar government Sunday vowed not to tolerate acts aimed at instigating unrest, disrupting the prevailing peace, stability, law and order, and the momentum of development and derailing its seven-step roadmap, according to the state-run Myanmar Radio and Television.
In its second declaration in 2007, the Information Committee of the State Peace and Development Council criticized the National League for Democracy (NLD) for steadfastly pursued confrontation against the government, allegedly taking advantage of the state's fuel price increase and trying to exploit the situation to mount a political attack on the government.
The declaration accused the NLD of instigating riots and unrest among the people, conspiring a situation to derail its national political process.
The declaration also blamed the NLD for sending letters to international organizations, embassies and governments for assistance and cooperating with a student group, who claimed themselves as "88 Generation Students Group", and some exile groups to create demonstrations, riots and terrorist acts.
The statement pointed out that the NLD has made seditious declarations which are against the government and cause the people to lose respect for the government, having instigated public unrest and urged the international community to sanction Myanmar.
Regarding fuel supply, the statement clarified that for a long time the government has imported fuel and sold it internally at a subsidized price. Since the oil price has been gradually increasing worldwide, Myanmar, which sells imported oil at a loss for domestic consumption, had to gradually increase the subsidies on fuel, it said.
The statement maintained that the raising of fuel price is still less than half the price or fuel in other countries and in neighboring countries and the move was to slightly reduce the government's burden of loss,
The Myanmar energy authorities surprisingly raised on Aug. 15 the official prices of fuel including gasoline, diesel and compressed natural gas supplied to private vehicles to a new high of two to five times respectively in less than two years since October 2005.
For the past three weeks, a series of small-scale demonstrations scattered in several locations in the biggest city of Yangon and other places outside Yangon such as Bago, Yenangyaung, Sittway, Labutta and Pakokku seemingly in protest against fuel price and other commodities price hike.
Source: Xinhua
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