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Military arrest another 81 in Burma



World: Asia-Pacific

            Military arrest another 81 in Burma 



            The military authorities in Burma have detained
            a further eighty-one members of the opposition
            National League for Democracy (NLD) over the
            past four days. 

            The party's vice-chairman, Tin Oo, told the BBC
            that almost eight-hundred opposition activists,
            including nearly two-hundred MPs, have now
            been detained since the army began its latest
            round of arrests in May. 

            The military authorities say the detained NLD
            members are invited guests staying at
            government guest houses. 

            Tin Oo repeated the NLD's call for the
            convention of parliament in September. (The
            NLD won a landslide victory in the 1990
            elections but the military ignored those results
            and said the country needed a constitution
            before a parliament could be called.) 

            From the newsroom of the BBC World Service