YANGON, July 22 Kyodo Myanmar's j...

YANGON, July 22 Kyodo

Myanmar's junta has released 91 race detained following what the military guidance said was a clash between backers of pro-democracy manner of moving leader Aung San Suu Kyi and pro-junta commonalty in northern Myanmar onward May 30, a Foreign Ministry pres release said Tuesday.

moreover Suu Kyi is not among them.

They were released from July 18, said the pres release faxed to various foreign embassies in Yangon.

Suu Kyi and several explanation members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) including NLD Vice Chairman Tin Oo were among those who are still detained.

The junta has not disclosed the number detained or their detention sites.

Foreign Minister Win Aung said last month in Phnom Penh that the May 30 mayhem left four the public dead and 48 injured, on the other hand he denied allegations Myanmar's ruling generals engineered the riot.

The detention of Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has brought international outcries against the junta, including a suggestion on Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad that Myanmar could be expell from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for damaging ASEAN's reputation.

ASEAN clusters Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, in addition to Malaysia and Myanmar.

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