Nine NLD Members Arrested in Rangoon

By MIN LWIN

At least nine members of the National League for Democracy were arrested near the Parliament building in Rangoon on Tuesday while calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to NLD sources.

NLD members Tun Tun Win, Tun Tun Linn, Pyae Pyae Aung, Win Myint Maung, Min Thein, Kaung Htet Hlaing, Phyo Wai and Yeni Soe and Htet Htet Oo Wai were taken away by security police, sources said.

“While they were returning from Khin Maung Swe’s public talk at NLD headquarters, they held up posters with the message “Free Aung San Suu Kyi” and photographs of Aung San Suu Kyi,” said the NLD source.

When the group was close to the Parliament building, police cars appeared on the scene and members of the group were beaten and arrested, he said.

“They didn’t shout any messages or slogans,” he said. “They were demonstrating peacefully.”

On June 19, at least four members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) were arrested in Rangoon while they released sparrows and doves to mark the 63rd birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Meanwhile, Burmese military authorities have transferred political prisoners, including student leaders, members of the 88 Generation Students and NLD members to remote prisons across the country, in an effort to place extra hardship on the prisoners’ family and friends.

Activist Htar Htar Thet, who conducted a hunger strike in prison two weeks ago, has been transferred from Pegu Prison in Pegu Division to Hkamti Prison in Sagaing Division.