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Hundreds of Arrests in Burma Beside



Subject: Hundreds of Arrests in Burma Besides the NLD Members

Hundreds of Arrests in Burma Besides the NLD Members

Released by ISBDA on May 27, 1996.

A Rangoon University teacher said that about 200 student activists have
been arrested by the authorities during the current crackdown against the
democratic forces of Burma.  As these students are not the members of NLD,
the number of recent detainees reaches to at least a total of five hundred.
On May 24, two young monks were arrested in public because they were
holding pro-democracy placards at a bus-stop nearby Sule Pagoda. 
Many of the NLD MPs and other detainees including  monks were already
transferred to Insein Jail. Eyewitness could not identify the detainees
because their faces were covered by blankets. 

Meanwhile, a rumor spreads in Rangoon that a violent clash broke out
between some students from Medical College No. 2 and a group of heavily
drunk SLORC soldiers at N. Okkalapa town.  
KT
ISBDA