MYANMAR : 10 Politicians Are Arrested by Military
The military reportedly seized 10 more opposition politicians, bringing to about 90 those held in a crackdown designed to scuttle a meeting sponsored by Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Most of those detained were elected members of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, or NLD, which plans to hold its first congress Sunday since a sweeping election victory in 1990. Myanmar’s foreign minister said reports of detentions were “fabricated,” Japan’s Kyodo news agency said. The U.S. State Department condemned the detentions.
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