Elected activist died in prison.

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		Prison torture killed activist, exiles allege
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	Burma's opposition National League for Democracy yesterday 
confirmed the death of Hla Than, 49, an activist elected to parliament in 
1990 and detained by the junta later that year.

	Sources close to the NLD, reached by telephone in Rangoon, said 
that Hla Than's body was cremated on Sunday.

	He was officially said to have died of tuberculosis, but the 
exiled opposition National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma 
alleged he had died of internal injuries due to torture in prison.

	Hla Than was sent to Rangoon General Hospital from prison about 
two weeks ago "in very bad shape", one source said. The source declined 
to speculate on the cause of death, saying: "It could be anything."

[Bangkok, 6 July 1996]

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