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Subject: NCUB press Statement on Arbitrary Arrest and Detention of NLD members

October 23, 1998

Press Statement for Immediate Release

Arbitrary Arrest and Detention of NLD Members


On 4 October 1998, at about midnight, U Sein Win, a member of Mindeh Ekin
Ward Peace and Development Council (WPDC) and SPDC military intelligence
(MI) personnel came and took away Ko Ne Lin, a member of the NLD Divisional
Youth Organizing Committee, son of U Si and Daw Yi, from his home in Mideh
Ekin Mya Ye Nan Ward, Aung Mye Thazan township, Mandalay Division. 

At the Mindeh Ekin WPDC office, WPDC Chairman Ko Kyi Soe and SPDC MI tried
to force Ko Ne Lin to sign a statement renouncing his NLD membership and
promising to give up all political activities. As Ko Ne Lin refused, he has
since been detained in a lockup at the Ye Htwet military camp, Yankin
Taung, in the east of Mandalay.

Political detainees arrested in Mandalay are no longer kept together in
Mandalay jail. Instead, they are dispersed in the lockups of the SPDC
military camps around Mandalay such as Dagundaing, Myit Nge, Pathein Gyi,
Ye Htwet, and etc.

The NCUB has been informed that the SPDC is detaining some older NLD
leaders at the SPDC Infantry Battalion (4) camp at Pathein Gyi. They have
been tortured systematically. In order to hasten their demise, those who
suffer high-blood pressure, diabetes and old age diseases, have been given
inappropriate food such as highly rich food and sweet candies. 

[The National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB) functions as a
parliament to the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma
(NCGUB), a parallel government set up abroad, to counter the SPDC. It is a
coalition of 4 member-organizations of ethnic and democratic organizations,
the National Democratic Front (NDF), Democratic Alliance of Burma (DAB),
National League for Democracy-Liberated Area (NLD-LA) and Members of
Parliament Union (MPU).]
     
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