One year on and Suu Kyi is still under arrest

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Yangon - Myanmar authorities arrested seven protesters for handing out leaflets and demanding the release of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on the first anniversary of her detention, witnesses said.

Security men swooped on a young woman who staged a solo protest outside Yangon's city hall on Sunday in a rare public display of opposition against the ruling military junta.

"She was standing on the road calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, Tin Oo and other political prisoners," a witness said.

In two other incidents, six men were arrested in the capital for distributing leaflets citing a United Nations human rights declaration.

Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), and the party's vice-chairperson, Tin Oo, remain under house arrest in Yangon a year after violence on May 30 2003 triggered a crackdown on the opposition.

Myanmar, a former British colony

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If investigated properly, I believe it would be shown that the Myanmar government has murdered and tortured more people than Saddam ever did.

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1. kick

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2. One year. How much has the average American seen about this?

But if someone sneezes in Israel it's a big story to the U.S. media and government.

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3. UN envoy slams Myanmar assembly

REUTERS , BANGKOK
Wednesday, Jun 02, 2004,Page 5

A top UN human rights envoy likened military-ruled Myanmar's constitution-drafting assembly to "mass house arrest" yesterday and said he had no idea why the junta still held democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.

Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, who has twice been denied entry to the former Burma since a visit last November, said he did not understand why the junta had falsely promised to release the Nobel peace laureate after a year of detention.

It had also reneged on commitments to ease restrictions on her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in time for last month's start of the constitutional National Convention without providing any explanation, he said.

"It's a mystery for me," Pinheiro told reporters in the Thai capital. "I am terribly depressed and sad."

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