Htoo Shin
Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)
New Delhi, June 7, 2003

Vice-chairman of National League of Democracy, U Tin Oo, is being
jailed in an India border town, said a minister from the exiled National
Coalition Government of Burma yesterday morning.

"Reliable sources from inside told me that U Tin Oo is in Kalay", said
a New Delhi based elected parliamentarian, Dr. Tint Swe, without
revealing further details. ('U' is an honorific title).

At a ceremony commemorating the victims and missing NLD members of the
May 30 ambush attack by military-backed thugs, Dr Tint Swe comforted
Burmese worrying about the missing prominent NLD leader. The Burmese
Christian Association in New Delhi sponsored this ceremony.

U Tin Oo, a 75 year old veteran of the Burma's Independence struggle,
has been missing for a week following the bloody ambush in Ye Oo. While
there have been varying reports about the incident, witnesses at the
scene have claimed that up to one hundred mainly NLD supporters were
killed while traveling to northern Burma with opposition leader Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi.

Reportedly, Noble Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been injured and is
being held in a Ye Mon military guesthouse, 25 miles far from Rangoon. The
military regime refuses to confirm any details, or to allow outside
access to visit Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Two days ago, witnesses in Kalay Wa township in Sagaing Division, on
the way to Kalay, reported seeing U Tin Oo escorted by Burmese soldiers.
This news was relayed to an opposition member residing in the
India-Burma border area.

Dr. Tint Swe claimed, "The regime has not released any news related to
him [Tin Oo] yet. I'm deeply worried about his health."

United Nation special envoy Mr. Razali Ismail is in Rangoon and has
demanded that the military junta allow him to visit Suu Kyi.

The United States have backed the UN diplomat and have demanded that
Razali be granted access to meet Suu Kyi and that the junta release all
other NLD leaders being held captive.

The military regime in Burma is detaining 20 senior NLD leaders under
house arrest; they have shut universities and many NLD offices
throughout the country, and have cut phone lines in an effort to prevent
outsiders gaining information since the May 30 blackout. The military junta
claims that only four people died in the skirmish and that Suu Kyi is
unhurt and being housed in a safe place.