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          緬甸當局逮捕抗議百姓 Junta Arrests Anti-Government Demonstrators in Rangoon Anti-Government Demonstrators in Rangoon Junta Arrests Anti-Government Demonstrators in RangoonBy Khun Sam February 23, 2007 Burmese military authorities have detained at least five peo 烤肉食材ple following a rare demonstration in downtown Rangoon on Thursday, calling on the government to improve the economy, education and health care, according to Rangoon sources. One demonstrator, Htin Kyaw 租房子, who led the demonstration, and a second person were arrested by police. Three journalists covering the protests were taken into custody, questioned and released later in the day. Three more people who took part in t 商務中心he demonstration were arrested later Thursday night."Authorities took away three people from their home in North Okkalapa Township,” a source close to the protesters told The Irrawaddy on Friday. Their whereabouts are unknown. About 1 酒店經紀5 demonstrators, calling themselves the Myanmar Development Committee, gathered at a crowded market in downtown Rangoon and later marched to Sule Pagoda on Thursday. They held placards and distributed a statement calling on the government to lower 褐藻醣膠food prices, and improve social services. The demonstrators were cheered and joined by onlookers, swelling the crowd to more than 100 people. The protest ended peacefully after about 30 minutes. State-run newspaper The New Light of Myanmar on Friday accused the de 新成屋monstrators of inciting a riot and said the protest panicked nearby vendors, shoppers and passers-by and “violated the existing law.” “The demonstration made the public dislike and disrespect the government," the junta’s mouthpiece newspaper said. The junta tolerates little d 酒店工作issent and anti-government rallies are rare in Burma. Authorities prohibit more than five people from gathering in public places. This was one of the rare demonstrations against the military government since the 1988 nationwide, pro-democracy uprising, which was crushed by the current junta. Main o 東森房屋pposition party, the National League for Democracy, released a statement on Friday saying the protest was peaceful, broke no laws and represented the desires of Burmese citizens. Myint Thein, a NLD spokesperson, said, “We want all people equal under the law.” In late January, pro-government demonstrations were 室內設計 held outside the US and British embassies in Rangoon, denouncing the two countries’ efforts to get a resolution condemning the military junta adopted by the UN Security Council. The government took no action against the demonstrators and praised the group in the state-run newspaper. http://www.irrawaddy.org/aviewer.asp?a=6723&z=1 景觀設計63  .
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