BBC-Burmese junta denies arresting

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Subject: BBC-Burmese junta denies arresting dissident officers 

Friday, September 3, 1999 Published at 11:10 GMT 12:10 UK
BBC World: Asia-Pacific

Burmese junta denies arresting dissident officers

The military government in Burma has denied an opposition report that
several army personnel have been arrested for showing sympathy with the
pro-democracy movement.

A spokesman said the report was one of several fabrications got up by
opposition elements before their planned agitation on the ninth of this
month.

He was responding to a statement put out by exiled members of the National
Council of the Union of Burma, which said seven junior officers and two
soldiers had been interrogated by the military intelligence service in
eastern Karen state after circulating pro-democracy posters.

>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service