YANGON, OCT 29: Myanmar's supreme court today dismissed complaints of abuse of power levelled by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy against senior officials of the military government.Legal sources said supreme court judge Tin Aung Aye ruled that the complaints, related to arrest and harassment of opposition members, were not valid and dismissed them.It was the first time the supreme court had formally responded to the complaints by leaders of the NLD since the military government took power in late 1988, but the decision came as no surprise.A government statement said the opposition complaints had been investigated but no evidence found to confirm them.It also said NLD leader Aung Shwe and the three other complainants had failed to present necessary permission from the government to lodge a complaint against civil servants.`Therefore sufficient reason for carrying on the investigation into the direct complaints made . were not found and they were dismissed,' it said. The NLD filed the complaints on September 30 against the director-general of national intelligence bureau, home minister Colonel Tin Hlaing, information minister Major Gen Kyi Aung and Ba Htay, the election commission chairman.The current intelligence chief is Lt Gen Khin Nyunt, the official number three in the ruling military council, but widely regarded as its most powerful figure.Listing its complaints in a statement earlier this year, the NLD said its activities had been `continuously disrupted, prevented, and destroyed by the authorities concerned'.It accused the authorities of illegally detaining its members and organising mass rallies to denounce elected representatives.NLD won Myanmar's last election in 1990 by a landslide but the military ignored the result and has since tried to silence dissent through arrests and intimidation.Last year, hundreds of NLD members were detained and large numbers have since been forced to resign from the party after it pushed for the convening of parliament.NLD leaders including Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel peace prize winner, attended Friday's hearing, which lasted about an hour.The NLD later issued a statement saying it planned to submit a `revised' case to the authorities.
