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Suu Kyi aide among three jailed for 7 years 



     YANGON -- A senior aide to Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and
     two other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) have been
jailed for
     seven years, NLD sources said yesterday. Win Htein, a former military
officer who
     joined the NLD in the late 80s, was sentenced on Aug 16, about three
months after
     being picked up by Myanmar's military authorities ahead of a key party
congress, the
     sources said. 

     Two other NLD members detained in the government crackdown aimed at
scuttling
     the pro-democracy meeting in May were also sentenced on Aug 16, but
their identities
     were as yet unknown, they said. 

     Win Htein had acted as a liaison officer for Ms Aung San Suu Kyi since the
     pro-democracy leader's release from six years of house arrest in July
1995. 

     Another liaison officer who was in charge of foreign press relations,
Aye Win, was also
     detained in May, but NLD sources said it was unlikely that he was one
of the other
     two to have received the heavy prison sentences. 

     More than 260 pro-democracy activists were rounded up in May, ahead of
a meeting
     at Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's home to mark the sixth anniversary of the 1990
elections,
     which the NLD won overwhelmingly. The government said at the time that
it made the
     arrests to prevent "anarchy" and unrest at the meeting. 

     Most of those picked up have been released, but many key NLD members,
including
     Aye Win, have not. -- AFP, Reuter.