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Aung San Suu Kyi (1999 photo)

Burma's military junta has released five members of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party.

The five opposition members were freed Friday as part of ongoing reconciliation talks between the government and the opposition. Since the talks began in October of 2000, the government has released at least 220 opposition party prisoners.

The military junta, in power since 1962, refused to acknowledge the results of a 1990 election that would have brought Aung San Suu Kyi's party to power. Instead, the government arrested hundreds of opposition supporters.

Under house arrest from 1989 to 1995, Aung San Suu Kyi was again placed under house detention in September of 2000.

Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.

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