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Myanmar junta closes NLD offices, detains leaders after Suu Kyi arrest.
(From Agence France Presse)
Myanmar's military rulers have shut down two major offices of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) and put senior members under house arrest after the party's leader was arrested, sources said.
Aung San Suu Kyi was put under "protective custody" in northern Myanmar along with 18 members of her entourage after clashes between her supporters and a pro-junta mob Friday left four dead and 50 injured, the government said.
An NLD source said the party's offices in the southern town of Moulmein and the northern city of Mandalay had now been shut.
"I have been told by a family source that her father was summoned to the NLD office in Moulmein to effect the office's closure by the authorities," he told AFP.
In Mandalay, which was the first party office Aung San Suu Kyi visited after her release from house arrest in May 2002, the NLD's ...
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