Media Release by the DPNS

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Media Release
21st March 1998

	The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) still continues its attempt
to crack down on the activities of opposition members and pro-democracy
activists in Burma, by mass-arrests.  Hundreds of people, including Buddhist
monks and 50 lawyers, were recently arrested by the military intelligence
units in Rangoon and Mandalay but it is not known where they are being kept.
Among these people, some were student leaders of the All Burma Federation of
Students' Union (ABFSU) in 1950s and 1960s.

The following are some people who were recently detained by the SPDC.

1. Dr. Maung Maung Kyaw 	(a lawyer)
2. Ko Khun Sai			(a lawyer)
3. U Khin Maung Nyein		(a lawyer)
4. U Tin Maung			(a lawyer)
5. U Tin Aye			(a lawyer)
6. U Ohn Maung (Parachute)	(a former politician)
7. U Ko Yu 			(a lawyer and a well-known writer )
8. U Thar Ban			(a former  student leader)
9. U Kyi Lin			(a lawyer)
10.U Aung Myint			(a lawyer and a former student leader)
11.U Myo Myint			(an activist)
12.U Tint Lwin			(an activist)
13.Myoma U Tin Aye		(a lawyer)

The following are also the list of arrested people who were mentioned in the
recent SPDC's news briefing on March 1, 1998. Most are ABFSU people inside.

1. U Hla Shwe ( a former student leader )
2. U Thaw Kaung ( Chief Librarian of Rangoon University )
3. Ko Soe Moe
4. Ko Moe Kyaw
5. Ko Po Tote
6. Ko Kyaw Zaw (alias) Ko Aung Kyaw Hein
7. Ko Set Aung Naing ( a student leader and a son of U Hla Shwe )
8. Ko Nay Lin Soe
9. Ko Win Oo
10.Ko Aung Htun
11.Ko Nyan Win
12.Ko Thet Naing Oo
13.Ko Khin Hlaing
14.Ko Soe Maung
15.Ma Aye Aye Myat
16.U Pyin-Nyar Zaw-Ta ( a Buddhist monk )
17.U Sanda Siri ( a Buddhist monk )
18.Unknown name ( a Buddhist monk )
19.Unknown name ( a Buddhist monk )
20.Unknown name ( a Buddhist monk )
21. Ko Kyaw Win
22. Ko Naing Aung
23. Ko Lay
24. Saya U Aye Win (a private school teacher in Mandalay)

Information Department
Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS)
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