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Burmese opposition party member die



Burmese opposition party member dies in
                                  jail
                                  11:22 a.m. Oct 23, 1997 Eastern

                                  RANGOON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A member of
Aung
                                  San Suu Kyi's National League for
Democracy
                                  (NLD) party has died in custody, Burma's
military
                                  government said on Thursday.

                                  Kyaw Din, 58, died at a prison hospital
of acute
                                  pulmonary edema while serving a two-year
jail
                                  sentence, the government said in a
statement received
                                  by Reuters.

                                  ``U Kyaw Din of NLD Wakema Township, who
is
                                  serving a two year prison sentence since
July 24,
                                  1997 for violation of Burma Criminal Act
section
                                  505 (B)...passed away on 20 October at
Wakema
                                  Township hospital,'' the statement said.

                                  It said he was also suffering from renal
failure and
                                  ``malignant hypertension.''

                                  The statement gave no further details on
Kyaw Din's
                                  sentence.

                                  Officials from the NLD, the party
co-founded and run
                                  by Suu Kyi, were not available for
comment.

                                  A total of six well-known NLD members
have died in
                                  custody since 1988, NLD statistics show.

                                  Thousands of NLD members were killed or
                                  imprisoned during and after nationwide
uprisings in
                                  Burma in 1988.

                                  The NLD won a landslide victory in a 1990
 election
                                  but the result was never recognised by
the military
                                  government.