Fifteen arrested during protests in Burma: first photos

Around thirty members of Aung San Suu Kyi's dissident opposition party in Burma, the National League for Democracy (NLD), marched through the streets of Rangoon this morning. Fifteen of them were arrested. The protestors tried to get into the home of Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, to commemorate the NLD's victory in the country's 1990 elections - elections which were rejected by the junta. These exclusive photos were sent to us by Moe Zaw Oo, a representative of the NLD in Thailand who is one of our Observers in Burma. According to him, the protesters were demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and immediate aid relief for cyclone victims.

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This morning in Rangoon.