NLD party is very active in UK,

                 There are critics these days that NLD is more or less defunct and the election victory won by NLD in 1990 is hugely irrelevant now.

                 But, anyway, at least in UK, NLD is still very alive and thriving and active.

                 Recently, on the 17th anniversary of the military coup by the current SPDC regime, NLD/UK staged a successful demonstration in front of Burmese Embassy in London, participated by nearly 100 activists. 

                And currently NLD/UK is carrying out a signature campaign to appeal to United Nations Security Council to take urgent actions on Burma. Burma Digest is participating in this appeal campaign, as all our readers know_ a very large number of signatures has already been collected now. 

               On the coming United Nations Day, NLD/UK will again make a demonstration in Parliament Square in London, and then will also present those collected signatures to the British Foreign Office. 

               NLD/UK and other activists in London under the guidance of Sayadaw U Uttara is forming a united campaign organization called BDMA; so far BDMA has more than 200 members_ considering the not-so-large size of exile Burmese community in London, establishing a pro-democracy campaign group with a few hundreds of members is quite an achievement.

              Sayadaw U Uttara said, in the meeting with NCGUB/NCUB delegates, that Burmese activists usually tend to form a new group or party with just two or three people rather than forming a large, united and well co-ordinated campaign_ but in London a unity has been achieved in BDMA.

             In that meeting, an NCGUB delegate also said that NCGUB policy is to make a united effort rather than arguing or quarrelling among ourselves whether to engage or disengage with SPDC; at the end of the day our aim is to get democracy in Burma somehow, one way or the other. 

             The NCUB delegate said that, with well co-ordinated efforts by all pro-democracy activists inside and outside Burma, we might get democracy in Burma even within coming 17 months.

             So, let us remind SPDC that NLD is still thriving and NLD's victory in 1990 elections is still very relevant, and SPDC's convention and constitution without participation by NLD is absolutely illegitimate and invalid and illegal.