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- WORLD, Page 61World NotesBURMATaking a Step Backward
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- Despite a sound trouncing in last May's elections, Burma's
- military junta has yet to move forward on its promise to cede
- control of the country, which it now calls Myanmar, to the
- "largest party." Last week it actually took a step backward.
- Citing "security reasons," government forces in Rangoon and
- Mandalay arrested six top leaders of the National League for
- Democracy, the opposition party that won 80% of the seats in
- the national legislature. The arrests came a week after the
- junta said it would release N.L.D. leader Aung San Suu Kyi if
- she agreed to leave the country. Aung San Suu Kyi was placed
- under house arrest in July 1989, after she led a series of
- antigovernment rallies and criticized Burma's behind-the-scenes
- strongman, Ne Win.
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