Junta continues arrest more activists despite told to stop.

October 25, Mizzima News
Junta arrest more activists

While the Burmese military junta claims to have release several detainees,
arrested in connection with the recent protests, it has arrested eight
more key activists over the week, activists said.

The Thailand based Asia-Pacific Peoples' Partnership on Burma said student
activist D-Nyein Aye and 88 generation member Aung Naing were arrested
from hiding on Tuesday, while a youth member of the National League for
Democracy Thein Swe was arrested on Monday.

The APPB also said another five activists were picked up by the
authorities on Saturday, accounting for eight arrests over the week.

Khin Onhmar, coordinator of the APPPB, said the junta continues to
hunt-down key activists even as it claims to be releasing several of those
arrested earlier.

"The junta wants international pressure to ease off and is therefore
releasing several detainees," she added.

Meanwhile, Tate Naing of the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners
- Burma (AAPP-B), said the Burmese junta has arrested more than 4,000
monks, activists and ordimary people since it began cracking down on the
largest public demonstration in two decades in September.

The junta said it has released a majority of those arrested and only 190
more remain in detention, Tate Naing said "there are at least 700 people
still remaining in custody."


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