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BBC-Burmese military detain 800 opp (r)



Friday, September 11, 1998 Published at 14:36 GMT
            15:36 UK


World: Asia-Pacific

Burmese military detain 800 opposition

The military authorities in Burma have continued to detain members of the
opposition National League for Democracy.

In an interview with the BBC, the NLD leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said more
than seven hundred members had been held in the last few
days and reports were still coming in of further arrests throughout the
country.

She said those detained included nearly two hundred members of the
parliament which was elected in 1990 but never allowed to sit.

Aung San Suu Kyi said the party remained undaunted by the military's action
and intended to go ahead with its campaign to have
parliament convened. (The NLD won a landslide victory in the 1990
elections).

>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service