[burmanet2-l] AP-Myanmar Releases J

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Why was he expelled from the NLD?


> Monday, January 10 6:25 PM SGT
> 
> Myanmar Releases Jailed Pro-democracy Economics Writer
> 
> YANGON, Myanmar (AP)--Myanmar's military government has released from
> prison a noted economics writer, a former senior member of the
> pro-democracy party of Aung San Suu Kyi.
> 
> A Myanmar government statement on Monday said Moe Thu, 62, also known
> as Sein Myint, the former editor of the popular economics magazine
> Danna, was freed from Yangon's Insein Jail on Jan. 3 on humanitarian
> grounds following the death of his wife.
> 
> He was jailed for rallying crowds without permission in June 1996 in
> the name of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, it said, without
> mentioning the duration of his sentence.
> 
> A friend who saw him after his release last week said Moe Thu was in
> good health.
> 
> Also known as a film director, Moe Thu had been a senior member of Suu
> Kyi's National League for Democracy, but apparently fell out of favor
> for his left-wing views and was expelled from the party.
> 
> Hundreds of party activists and other political opponents of the
> military regime have been jailed or forced into exile. The regime
> brooks no opposition and has refused to recognize the party's sweeping
> victory in elections in 1990.
>