Magazine editor arrested after visiting cyclone-affected Burma
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The editor of the Myanmar Tribune has been arrested and his magazine closed after he travelled to the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta to help bury people killed in the storm.
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association say Aung Kyaw San was arrested on June 15 along with 16 others who volunteered to help bury the cyclone dead.
The volunteers had buried 400 bodies and were returning to Rangoon for more burial sacks when they were arrested.
The media groups are calling on the junta to stop preventing civil society, including the press, from participating in the relief effort.
More than 138,000 people are dead or missing after Cyclone Nargis hit the country nearly two months ago.
