The World - News from June 22, 1989
Burmese troops fired on a demonstration by about 500 people in a Rangoon suburb, killing one protester, Rangoon Radio reported. It was the first reported fatal shooting by security forces in the nation’s capital since the army took power in a bloody crackdown last September. Burma’s main opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was detained after a scuffle broke out while she was laying wreaths to honor 1,000 demonstrators killed a year ago by the military, official sources said. Aung San Suu Kyi, 44-year-old daughter of assassinated independence hero Aung San, and 15 followers rounded up with her were released after an interrogation, the sources said.
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