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YANGON, Myanmar — A popular comedian here who had been carrying out a private campaign to help the victims of last month’s cyclone has been detained by the police, his friends said Thursday.
The comedian, U Maung Thura, 47, better known by his stage name Zarganar, or The Tweezers, was taken from his home in Yangon on Wednesday evening, the friends said.
The police ransacked the house and seized his computer files, they said. The files contained photos and videos the military government would prefer that the world not see — victims of the May 3 cyclone and the 2006 “Champagne and diamonds” wedding of the daughter of the junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, according to a friend of Maung Thura.
