American Buddhist Net

Posted: 11 October 2007 Channelnewsasia

YANGON : A member of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party has died after torture and interrogation, a rights group said on Wednesday, as possible talks between her and the ruling military failed to develop.

Win Shwe, a 42-year-old member of the opposition National League for Democracy, was arrested on September 26 near Myanmar's second city of Mandalay, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) said in a statement.

"He died as a result of torture during interrogation. However, his body was not sent to his family and the interrogators indicated that they had cremated it instead," the Thailand-based watchdog said.

AAPP is run by former political prisoners who now live in exile in neighbouring Thailand. The group monitors conditions in Myanmar's notorious prisons.

More than 2,100 people were arrested last month during the biggest anti-government protests seen here in nearly two decades. Nearly 1,000 are still being held, according to official figures.

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