Burma arrests the unrest "conspir

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Subject: Burma arrests the   unrest "conspiracy" 


hursday, August 19, 1999 Published at 10:04 GMT 11:04 UK 


             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