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BBC-SPDC Kidnappers demand ransom
- Subject: BBC-SPDC Kidnappers demand ransom
- From: tinkyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 04:03:00
Wednesday, April 28, 1999 Published at 17:10 GMT 18:10 UK
BBC-World: Asia-Pacific
SPDC Kidnappers demand ransom
The Burmese Foreign Minister, U Win Aung, says the military government will
release jailed MPs and members of the opposition National League for
Democracy, if the NLD agrees to dissolve a parliamentary committee it formed
last year.
The ten-member committee was set p to represent members of parliament who
were elected in 1990 but never allowed to take their seats.
A spokesman for the NLD, U Tin Oo, has rejected the offer.
Sources in Rangoon estimate that there are some two-thousand political
prisoners in Burma, mostly members of the NLD.
>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service