BBC-Burmese junta denies arresting (r)

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Subject: Re: BBC-Burmese junta denies arresting dissident officers 

It is ovious that the regime denys any thing. However, the whole world
knows the true.

It claimed only 30 protesters were killed in 1988 pro-democracy
movements. 

But more than 3,000 were in fact killed by the junta. 


--- TIN KYI <tinkyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wednesday, September 8, 1999 Published at 10:36 GMT
> 11:36 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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