On August 9, 18 foreigners were arrested in Rangoon for distributing leaflets bearing a ?Goodwill Message? asking Rangoon residents to remember on its tenth anniversary the events of August 8, 1988. These leaflets were distributed at busy centres throughout the capital. The foreigners included six Americans, three Thai, three Malaysians, three Indonesians, two Filipinos and one Australian who travelled together to Rangoon and were subsequently held for interrogation.