Myanmar arrests four prominent activists


	Myanmar arrests four prominent activists

pokkets

10-13-2007 7:21 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/833041a5-8213-40e6-b639-d1f1f6413308/1079B3DA-BEC7-4029-956A-8E6978BAA86D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071013\Myanmar_20071013.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1" href="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071013\Myanmar_20071013.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mail.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071013\Myanmar_20071013.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1"><A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. 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Others arrested were Aung Htoo</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071013\Myanmar_20071013.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">and Thin Thin Aye, also known as Mie Mie</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071013\Myanmar_20071013.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">The three were believed to be the last remaining activists at large from the 88 Generation Students' Group</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071013\Myanmar_20071013.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">the country's boldest dissident group</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071013\Myanmar_20071013.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">which was at the forefront of a 1988 democracy uprising</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071013\Myanmar_20071013.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">A fourth activist, Ko Ko, was also arrested</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20071013\Myanmar_20071013.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1">The United Nations has spearheaded an international effort to push the military, which has ruled Myanmar since 1962, to negotiate with detained National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1079B3DA-BEC7-4029-956A-8E6978BAA86D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>