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           ARRESTS WILL NOT DETER SUU KYI PARTY MEET    
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Rangoon,MAY  22:  Undauntsd by the  arrest of more than 100
of  her  supporters,  Nobel  laureate Aung  San Suu  Kyi is
determined  to defy the military regime and hold A congress
of  her political party  in Rangoon on May  27,  one of her
aides said on Thursday.

More  than 100 members of Ms Suu Kyi's political party have
been  arrested in just  two of Burma's  14 provinces as the
military   conducts  a  nationwide  sweep  to  prevent  the
congress,   said  the  aide,  who  spoke  on  condition  of
anonymity.

The  meeting  was  meet to  commemorate  the  1990 national
election   in  which  Ms  Suu  Kyi's  National  League  for
Democracy  won 82 per cent of the seats in a Parliament the
regime refused to convene.

The  100 party members were detained in Mandalay and Aerate
divisions in northern Burma,  and the arrest total was acre
to  rase as news aground the country trickled into Rangoon,
he said.

Burma's  communications  systems are  primitive  because of
the country's long economic and political isolation.  Party
members  were  approached  by  military  official  over the
weekend and requested not to attend the congress,  said the
aid.                    (AP)   

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                   BURMA JUNTER CONDEMNED
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Bangkok,   May 22:  London-bases  Amnesty International has
condemned  Burma's military  government for  the arrests of
dozens  of Opposition  leaders and call  for their embedded
and unconditional release.


'At  least 60  members of  Ms Aung  San Suu  Kyi's National
League  for  Democracy  party  have  been  detained  by the
government  as  they headed  to Rangoon  to attend  a party
meeting,  a senior ND official said.  Amnesty Antennal said
in  a statement received on Thursday that the lasted arrest
show  Burma's State  Law and Order  Restoration Council was
trying  to  eliminate the  party.   "The SLORC  is  bent on
crushing   the  peaceful  activates"  of  the  party,   the
organization said.                               (REUTER)   

                The Asian Age 23 May 1997.
 News And Information Bureau (All Burma Students League)
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