19 Arrested, Accused of Plotting Instability

Myanmar’s military regime has arrested 19 people accused of plotting with democracy advocates in India to destabilize the country. Two of those arrested are members of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, according to the New Light of Myanmar, a state-run newspaper. The newspaper said the India-based expatriate wing of Suu Kyi’s party was planning to train activists from Myanmar (formerly Burma) in “political defiance” and establish a dissident cell in Monywa, 400 miles north of the capital, Yangon (formerly Rangoon). Those arrested were allegedly involved in a plot to distribute leaflets intended to undermine government economic development programs and plans to draft a new constitution.