The Burmese military regime arrested 71 supporters of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, attempting to prevent a planned pro-democracy meeting and further suppress political opposition.
Aung San Suu Kyi (born June 19, 1945, Rangoon, Burma [now Yangon, Myanmar]) is a politician and opposition leader of Myanmar, daughter of Aung San (a martyred national hero of independent Burma) and Khin Kyi (a prominent Burmese diplomat), and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991.