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The Burmese military junta arrests and sentences opposition members with
long-term imprisonment

October 29, 1998

While the military regime in Burma -- known as the State Peace and Development
Council (SPDC) -- highlights the release from detention of some National
League
for Democracy (NLD) members including some MPs, many dissidents from various
opposition parties are still being kept in custody, some of them long-term
sentences. 

        As the NLD leads the call for convening the People's Parliament, the
ruling military junta continues its cruel suppression of the opposition
movement through mass arrests and intimidation.

        In July 1998, 20 people -- activists and former members of the
Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS) -- were arrested in Mandalay by the
authorities and sentenced to long-term imprisonment in various jails.  Eight
people were given sentences of 20 years imprisonment with hard labour, and the
other 12 were given sentences of seven years imprisonment.

        About 100 former DPNS members from Rangoon, Mandalay, Pegu,
Sagaing, and
the Delta Region have also been arrested and detained in various prisons in
Burma since June this year according to a reliable source.

Information Department
Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS)  

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