"...on 12 April, 2000, with undue force NLD youth members were arrested by the authorities for fulfilling their responsibilities and duties as members of the organisation. The overbearing military authorities carried out these illegal arrests stealthily in the middle of the night treating them like hardened criminals. In so doing, the military arnarshins (despots) have acted in contravention of the provisions of Articles 5, 9, 18, 19 and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Burma is a party..."