Ban Ki-moon tells Burma to free its prisoners

12 April 2012

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in Vietnam for a South-East Asian leaders' summit, called on military-ruled Burma to free political prisoners before its first election for 20 years on November 7, saying it still had time to allay concerns.

In the 1990 result, ignored by the military, the opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi swept to victory. She is one of more than 2,000 political detainees.

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