October 19: Three ministers of Burma’s military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), are making preparations to try five detained student leaders with trumped up charges, according to an official of pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA).

According to the official from Eastern Rangoon District USDA who doesn’t want to named, the three main plotters are U Thaung and Aung Thaung who are in charge of USDA and information minister Brig-Gen Kyaw San (Hsan).

During last week, the three ministers ordered their informers to urgently write up reports containing untrue facts about the detained leaders of 88 Generation Students Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi, Htay Kywe, Min Zeya and Pyone Cho. The informers were instructed to paint a vivid picture that the student leaders were trying to form a domestic political front with the monetary support from foreign countries, according to another ‘reporter’ of the USDA.

The reporter added that the draft report written by informers were revised and retouched by two professional journalists ‘adopted’ by Kyaw Hsan. Copies of the finished report were sent to the SPDC chairman Gen Than Shwe, vice-chairman Gen Maung Aye and Sa-Ya-Pha HQs.