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The military government , which in May said it had detained the politicians to prevent anarchy , said the activists were charged with attempting to destroy the peace and stability of the state .
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2,960
validation
1
But Suu Kyi disagreed with the methods , saying officials often arrested NLD supporters in the middle of the night , then did not give them the opportunity to defend themselves in trials .
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2,961
validation
1
" When our people are tried , they are tried in a very secretive way .
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2,962
validation
1
Their families are not told , " she said .
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2,963
validation
1
Suu Kyi , who spearheads a campaign for sanctions on Burma 's government , was under house arrest for six years without being tried before being released in July 1995 .
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2,964
validation
1
Several other leading members of the NLD have served prison terms .
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2,965
validation
1
The NLD party won a landslide victory in a 1990 election but the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , which assumed power in 1988 after crushing pro-democracy demonstrations , never recognised the poll .
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2,966
validation
1
" This lack of rule of law is an indication that the authorities are not interested in fair play , " she said . "
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2,967
validation
1
They are using a travesty of the law to try and crush our movements and to sentence our people to long terms in prison without proper trial . "
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2,968
validation
1
Suu Kyi said once the activists were sentenced , they suffered inhuman conditions and lack of rights in prison .
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2,969
validation
1
" Almost all of the prisoners start suffering from various health problems after a couple of years in jail , " she said . "
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2,970
validation
1
Some of our people have been in prison for five to six years . "
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
2,971
validation
1
Most political prisoners are held in Rangoon 's Insein Prison .
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2,972
validation
1
Some who have been released have recounted torture methods like sleep and food deprivation and physical abuse .
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2,973
validation
1
" If there are any more instances of death in custody it will be further proof that a prison sentence for political prisoners is sometimes almost the same as a death sentence , " Suu Kyi said .
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2,974
validation
1
Hla Than , an elected member of parliament for the NLD , died in early August after being at Insein for six years .
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2,975
validation
1
His death came five weeks after James Leander ( Leo ) Nichols , a close friend of Suu Kyi and Danish honorary consul , died while serving a prison term at Insein .
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2,976
validation
1
Suu Kyi said the government had increased its repression tactics on the democracy movement because it feared the growing popularity of the movement .
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2,977
validation
1
But she said she and the NLD would not stop their efforts to bring democracy to Burma even if it meant more arrests of party members or even herself .
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2,978
validation
1
" We will carry on .
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2,979
validation
1
Nobody is free from arrest in Burma . "
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2,980
validation
1
Dow Chemical in China ethylene venture .
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2,981
validation
1
BEIJING 1996-08-31
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2,982
validation
1
The Dow Chemical Co of the United States will invest $ 4 billion to build an ethylene plant in Tianjin city in northern China , the China Daily said on Saturday .
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2,983
validation
1
The plant will have annual production of 400,000 tonnes , the newspaper said .
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2,984
validation
1
It gave no further details of the venture .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
2,985
validation
1
Tianjin boasts a range of infrastructure facilities , attracting several multinational oil companies to invest in recent years .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": ["Tianjin"], "miscellaneous": []}
2,986
validation
1
Caltex Petroleum Corp plans to build a lubricants blender in a bonded zone in Tianjin , the newspaper said .
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2,987
validation
1
Multinational firms including Mobil , Shell and Caltex , were also attracted to Tianjin due to China 's rising demand for lube and oil-based products , the newspaper said .
{"person": [], "organization": ["Mobil", "Shell", "Caltex"], "location": ["Tianjin", "China"], "miscellaneous": []}
2,988
validation
1
It gave no further details .
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2,989
validation
1
N. Korea urges S. Korea to return war veteran .
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2,990
validation
1
SEOUL 1996-08-31
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2,991
validation
1
North Korea demanded on Saturday that South Korea return a northern war veteran who has been in the South since the 1950-53 war , Seoul 's unification ministry said .
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2,992
validation
1
" ...I request the immediate repatriation of Kim In-so to North Korea where his family is waiting , " North Korean Red Cross president Li Song-ho said in a telephone message to his southern couterpart , Kang Young-hoon .
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2,993
validation
1
Li said Kim had been critically ill with a cerebral haemorrhage .
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2,994
validation
1
The message was distributed to the press by the South Korean unification ministry .
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2,995
validation
1
Kim , an unrepentant communist , was captured during the Korean War and released after spending more than 30 years in a southern jail .
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2,996
validation
1
He submitted a petition to the International Red Cross in 1993 asking for his repatriation .
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2,997
validation
1
The domestic Yonhap news agency said the South Korean government would consider the northern demand only if the North accepted Seoul 's requests , which include regular reunions of families split by the Korean War .
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2,998
validation
1
Government officials were not available to comment .
{"person": [], "organization": [], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
2,999
validation
1
South Korea in 1993 unconditionally repatriated Li In-mo , a nothern partisan seized by the South during the war and jailed for more than three decades .
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3,000
validation
1
Chinese police hold veteran dissident .
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3,001
validation
1
BEIJING 1996-08-31
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3,002
validation
1
Chinese police have detained veteran dissident Wang Donghai , the New York-based pressure group Human Rights in China said on Saturday .
{"person": ["Wang Donghai"], "organization": ["Human Rights in China"], "location": [], "miscellaneous": ["Chinese", "New York-based"]}
3,003
validation
1
Police in Hangzhou , capital of the eastern province of Zhejiang , told Wang 's family that Wang would be sent to a study class , a euphemism for coercive ideological reform , the group said .
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3,004
validation
1
Police gave no reason for detaining Wang on Friday and would not let his family meet him or say where he was being held , the group said .
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3,005
validation
1
Police also would not say why Wang was being sent to a study class -- a holdover from the chaotic 1966-76 Cultural Revolution -- or say when he would be released , the group said .
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3,006
validation
1
Wang 's family and Hangzhou police could not be reached for immediate comment .
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3,007
validation
1
The group demanded Wang 's release and said his detention was a dangerous signal China was returning to its Cultural Revolution days .
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3,008
validation
1
Last month , Wang , 45 , a veteran dissident of the 1979 Democracy Wall movement , was ordered to serve one year of " re-education through labour " , but released because of poor health .
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3,009
validation
1
Re-education through labour is an administrative punishment with a maximum of three years that can be imposed by police without recourse to prosecutors or the courts .
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3,010
validation
1
Wang was jailed for two years for organising street protests after the military crushed pro-democracy demonstrations by students at Beijing 's Tiananmen Square on June 4 , 1989 , with heavy loss of life .
{"person": ["Wang"], "organization": [], "location": ["Beijing", "Tiananmen Square"], "miscellaneous": []}
3,011
validation
1
Chinese authorities appeared to be using administrative punishment more frequently to take dissidents out of circulation without having to go through a more complicated judicial process to impose criminal sentences , Western diplomats have said .
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3,012
validation
1
China police detains dissident Wang Donghai .
{"person": ["Wang Donghai"], "organization": [], "location": ["China"], "miscellaneous": []}
3,013
validation
1
BEIJING 1996-08-31
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3,014
validation
1
Chinese police have detained dissident Wang Donghai , the New York-based pressure group Human Rights in China said on Saturday .
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3,015
validation
1
Police detained Wang on Friday and would not let his family meet him or say where he was being held , the group said .
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3,016
validation
1
The pressure group said Wang would be sent to a study class , often a euphemism in China for ideological reform .
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3,017
validation
1
Wang 's family could not immediately be reached for comment .
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3,018
validation
1
Last month , Wang , 45 , a veteran dissident of the 1979 Democracy Wall movement , was ordered to serve one year of " re-education through labour " , but released because of poor health .
{"person": ["Wang"], "organization": ["Democracy Wall"], "location": [], "miscellaneous": []}
3,019
validation
1
Re-education through labour is an administrative punishment with a maximum of three years that can be imposed by police without recourse to prosecutors or the courts .
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3,020
validation
1
Wang was jailed for two years for organising street protests after the military brutally crushed pro-democracy demonstrations by students at Beijing 's Tiananmen Square on June 4 , 1989 , with heavy loss of life .
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3,021
validation
1
Hong Kong jails 88-year-old drug trafficker .
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3,022
validation
1
HONG KONG 1996-08-31
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3,023
validation
1
An 88-year-old army veteran was jailed for 15 years by a Hong Kong court for drugs trafficking after he admitted he had stashed heroin under his mattress , a newspaper said on Saturday .
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3,024
validation
1
" I am sorry to my ancestors for five generations , " Chen Chun-yeh told the High Court after sentencing on Friday , the Hong Kong Standard said . "
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3,025
validation
1
Tell my sons to collect my bones , " he said after hearing he was likely to die behind bars .
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3,026
validation
1
Chen , a former army secretary of the Chinese Nationalist regime which fled from mainland China to Taiwan in 1949 , pleaded guilty to trafficking 42 kg ( 92 pounds ) of drugs that could have been turned into 25 kg ( 55 pounds ) of heroin .
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3,027
validation
1
The ex-officer admitted stashing heroin under his mattress .
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3,028
validation
1
China cities to ban disposable plastic containers .
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3,029
validation
1
BEIJING 1996-08-31
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3,030
validation
1
Two Chinese cities are to ban the use of disposable plastic containers as part of efforts to fight pollution , the China Daily said on Saturday .
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3,031
validation
1
Authorities in Wuhan , capital of the central province of Hubei , would punish those who sell or use disposable plastic containers from September 1 , the newspaper said .
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3,032
validation
1
It did not elaborate .
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3,033
validation
1
The city 's industrial and commercial departments would confiscate disposable plastic containers and police would prevent new ones from entering the city , it said .
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3,034
validation
1
Wuhan consumes more than 200 million disposable plastic containers a year , the newspaper said .
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3,035
validation
1
The boomtown of Guangzhou , capital of the southern province of Guangdong , would ban disposable plastic containers by the end of 1996 , it said .
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3,036
validation
1
Guangzhou uses up 500,000 such containers each day , the newspaper said .
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3,037
validation
1
It gave no further details .
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3,038
validation
1
Iraqi Kurds say Iranian troops enter north Iraq .
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3,039
validation
1
ISTANBUL 1996-08-31
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3,040
validation
1
Iranian troops on Saturday entered Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq in the wake of an assault backed by Baghdad into the region , an Iraqi Kurdish group told Reuters .
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3,041
validation
1
" They entered this morning .
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3,042
validation
1
They have occupied the area to the depth of 40 km ( 25 miles ) .
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3,043
validation
1
They have established a headquarters in Chuman , " Faik Nerweyi of the Kurdistan Democratic Party ( KDP ) told Reuters by telephone from Ankara .
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3,044
validation
1
Nerweyi said he did not know the size or nature of the Iranian force in northern Iraq , but said KDP fighters had been easily outgunned in the area close to the Iranian border and had quickly withdrawn further west .
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3,045
validation
1
" They were far too strong , " he said .
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3,046
validation
1
Nerweyi said he did not know if there were any casualties .
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3,047
validation
1
A U.N. official in Baghdad said the KDP , backed by Iraqi tanks , heavy artillery and helicopters had taken control of the main northern Iraqi city of Arbil after fighting on Saturday .
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3,048
validation
1
U.S. President Bill Clinton has authorised the repositioning of U.S. firepower in the Gulf region in response to the Iraqi attacks .
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3,049
validation
1
The KDP charges that the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan , which took control of Arbil in fighting in December 1994 , has backing from Iran .
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3,050
validation
1
The PUK accuses the KDP of collaborating with Baghdad .
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3,051
validation
1
Northern Iraq has been under Iraqi Kurdish control since after the 1991 Gulf War .
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3,052
validation
1
U.S.-led allied planes based in Turkey are intended to protect the Kurds from Baghdad .
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3,053
validation
1
Ceasefire monitors to meet in south Lebanon .
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3,054
validation
1
JERUSALEM 1996-08-31
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3,055
validation
1
A committee monitoring the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas will meet in south Lebanon on Sunday to discuss an Israeli complaint against the Islamic group , the Israeli army said .
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3,056
validation
1
Representatives of the five nations making up the committee -- Israel , Lebanon , Syria , France and the United States -- will meet at 11 a.m. ( 0800 GMT ) in Naqoura , the coastal headquarters of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) .
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3,057
validation
1
" The committee will meet following a complaint by Israel over an incident in which two Lebanese residents were injured by Hizbollah fire in the Sikhin village ...
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3,058
validation
1
on August 29 , " an Israeli army spokeswoman said on Saturday .
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