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Subject: BBC-Burma arrests innocent thirty for unrest "conspiracy" 

Thursday, August 19, 1999 Published at 10:04 GMT 11:04 UK
BBC-World: Asia-Pacific

Burma arrests thirty for unrest "conspiracy"

The Burmese military government says it has arrested thirty-two people
recently in connection with a conspiracy to cause unrest in September.

A senior intelligence official, Colonel Than Tun, told a news conference in
Rangoon that twenty-five people were held in the central town of Pegu, six
in Ye and one in Moulmein in the south. The arrests are in addition to four
people the government said had been held last week. Than Tun said some of
those arrested were members of the opposition National League for Democracy.

Others had links with dissident groups in exile, which have called for a
general strike on the ninth of September 1999, the so-called "day of the
four nines".

>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service