5 NLD active members of Tamu branch

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Subject: 5 NLD active members of Tamu branch, Saggaing division will be , charged under act 17/1.

5 NLD active members of Tamu branch, Saggaing division                   
will be charged under act 17/1.                                        
 
        President U Kyin Swan Khan, secretary U Cho and 
three other colleagues were arrested in the month of 
December 1996 and now they were sent back to Tamu for 
trail.
 
        They will be sent to the court on 6th January 1997 
and will be charge under act 17/1. Under this act they can 
be sentenced from 6 (six) months to 1 (one) year.
 
        SLORC accused them that they distributed unlawful 
documents . According to our source now they are being 
detained in Tamu and no one is allowed to meet them.
 
News and Information Unit
ABSDF (Western-Burma)