World IN BRIEF : MYANMAR : Government Arrests Opposition Leaders
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Myanmar’s military government, which ignored May’s election landslide for the opposition, announced that it had arrested the acting opposition leader and five other key dissidents. Col. Than Tun, deputy chief of military intelligence, said six leaders of the National League for Democracy were arrested. In Myanmar’s May 27 national election, its first free voting in three decades, the league won 392 of 485 contested seats, but the military has ignored its demands to transfer power.
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