Myanmar arrests party leader

Myanmar arrests party leader

BANGKOK (AP): Myanmar's military authorities have arrested a leader of a banned ethnic minority party, an exile opposition group said yesterday.

Dr. Min Soe Lin, general secretary of the Mon National League for Democracy, was detained Nov. 6 in Mudon in the eastern province of Mon State, said a statement from the All Burma Students' Democratic Front.

The statement, received in Bangkok, said Min Soe Lin had been detained under the Emergency Provision Act for helping organize a celebration on Feb. 23 of Mon National Day after the government had banned the event. It said it did not know where he was being held.

The statement said Min Soe Lin was one of five successful candidates from the Mon National League for Democracy in the 1990 general election.