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Re: Reuters-opposition member dies in custody
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>``The government of Myanmar regrets to report that U Aung Min, a 
>member of the National League for Democracy, passed away in a >Defence 
Services Hospital in Mandalay on October 21,'' it said in a >statement. 
>
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>The government has said an indeterminate number of NLD mambers have 
>been ``invited'' to discuss the party's plans at government 
>guesthouses since early last month. 
>
 ....

The SPDC must stop issuing all sort of lies and immediately release all 
those who are detained as it is not a proper way to "invite" the NLD 
memebrs to discuss the party's plans while a genuine disccusion
between the leaders of the SPDC and the NLD party could have carried on.

If the authorities truly want to show their regrets about U Aung Min's 
death they should be prepared to take full responsibility and allow 
independent investigation into the sudden death of U Aung Min while he 
was under unlawful detention against his will. 

He was only '52'. 

My sincere condolence to his family in "Upper Burma". 

Good-bye my friend. We'll never forget your courage and sacrificing your 
life for the true cause and re-emergence of democracy in Burma.

Minn Kyaw Minn
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>Myanmar opposition member dies in custody-military 
>05:29 a.m. Oct 28, 1998 Eastern 
>
>YANGON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - A member of Myanmar's pro-democracy 
opposition died
>of cancer last week while in custody, the military government said on
>Wednesday. 
>
>``The government of Myanmar regrets to report that U Aung Min, a member 
of the
>National League for Democracy, passed away in a Defence Services 
Hospital in
>Mandalay on October 21,'' it said in a statement. 
>
> It said Aung Min, 52, had suffered from cancer of the lymph glands 
which had
>spread all over his body. 
>
>The announcement of the death comes during a visit by U.N. Assistant
>Secretary-General Alvaro de Soto, who was sent by Secretary-General 
Kofi Annan
>to nudge the generals towards democracy. He arrived on Tuesday. 
>
>Eight years ago, a senior member of the NLD, Maung Ko, died in custody 
during
>a similarly high profile visit by U.N. official Sadako Ogata, now the 
U.N.
>High Commissioner for Refugees, to check reports of human rights 
abuses. 
>
>The military said Maung Ko commited suicide, but relatives said bruises 
on his
>body showed he had been tortured to death. 
>
>Myanmar and U.N. officials have kept up a war of words in recent months 
over
>human rights, in particular the military's treatment of the NLD. 
>
>The party says nearly 1,000 of its members have been detained since 
May, when
>it resolved to seek a parliament in recognition of its landslide win in 
a 1990
>election which the military has ignored. 
>
>The government has said an indeterminate number of NLD mambers have 
been
>``invited'' to discuss the party's plans at government guesthouses 
since early
>last month. 
>
>In its statement, it said it had released 15 on Wednesday, bringing the 
number
>allowed home in the past few days to 114. 
>
>U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson called this month 
for
>the freeing of Myanmar's political prisoners and urged the government 
to halt
>``repression'' of the opposition. 
>
>Human rights groups outside Myanmar accuse the generals of massive 
abuses,
>including the use of forced labour, arbitrary detentions and summary
>executions. Yangon denies the charges. 
>
>
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