WASHINGTON - The United States voiced concerns yesterday at the arrest of 44 Burmese democracy activists and called on Burma's southeast Asian neighbours to exert pressure on the ruling junta.
The arrest of 44 elected legislators of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) "is yet another in a series of oppressive actions by the military regime to prevent Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters from exercising theirs basic political rights," US State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said.
"We are deeply concerned, and we've made the strongest possible representations to the Burmese authorities in Rangoon and also here in Washington," he said.