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        4 ASSOCIATES OF SUU KYI DETAINED IN BURMA
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Bangkok,  June 20: Burmese authorities were tight-lipped on
Friday   about  the   reported  detention   of  four  close
associated  of  pro-democracy  leader  Aung  San  Suu  Kyi,
including two of her cousins.

A senior government official in Rangoon declined to comment
on  the report.  "Public discussion  of sensitive issues is
not  appropriate and it will be premature to reveal details
at this stage," the official said. A source in Ms Suu Kyi's
party   in  Thursday  said  the  four  were  picked  up  by
authorities over the weekend.

There  was  speculation  they were  wanted  for questioning
about  documents  and  other  materials  which  Ms  Suu Kyi
managed  to have sent out of the country.  It was not clear
where  they were being held.  The four included Mr Cho Aung
Than, who until recently was one of the Opposition leader's
close aides at her Rangoon home.

Since  her release from house arrest  in July 1995,  Ms Suu
Kyi  has been able  to send letters  and taped addresses to
lobby the international community in behalf of her National
League for Democracy.  Over the past year the Burmese junta
has  progressively  moved to  isolate  the NLD  leader,  by
cutting her telephone line and   preventing  her  from 
meeting  journalists.   (AFP)

                                 The Asian Age 21 June 1997 
     News and Information Bureau, All Burma Students League.

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