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Min Ko Naing represented both the pain and the hope of the entire Burmese people, and this is the reason that the military arrested him on March 23rd, 1989. Arresting Min Ko Naing was an important signal to the other leaders that nobody would be safe from arrest and imprisonment. Not long after, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and several others were also arrested.
Min Ko Naing was charged under section 5(j) of the 1950 Emergency Provisions Act for having delivered anti-government speeches and agitating unrest. For this, he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, of which he has already served 10 long years in solitary confinement. While other political prisoners have received amnesties and are allowed to stay in group cells and receive regular family visits, Min Ko Naing has been kept isolated and been given no reductions in has sentence.
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