YANGON. Feb I: The Myanmar government said today that roads leading to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's home will remain closed for security reasons, reports Reuter.

"The barricades are there for security reasons and the personal security of the lady" a government spokesman told reporters at a monthly news conference, when the situation improves, we will remove the barricades.

Access to Suu Kyi's lakeside home has been blocked since anti-government student unrest on the streets of Yangon in early December.

The Nobel peace laureate has said that she is unhappy with the restrictions Suu Kyi was unavailable to comment on the latest government statement.

The government spokesman also said that Myanmar uni-yer^ities and colleges closed after the Deceniber protests would

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land based exiled students movement to create disturbances in Myanmar and identified an American woman in Thailand as being involved.

AP adds: The military regime Saturday announced the arrest of about 20 people for al leged links between an insurgent group of student exiles and "subversives" operating inside the country.

Col. Kyaw Thein, a senior military intelligence official, told reporters that about 20 people had been arrested for having links with the All 6urma Students Democratic Front, an insurgency group.

The arrests fit a pattern of increasing crackdown on dissent. The front, based in Thailand. is composed of students who fled Myanmar after the army gunned down thousands of pro-democracy protesters during an uprising in 1988.

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tween the insurgents and groups within Myanmar. They were not among those arrested, officials said.

"Three subversive groups that have maintained contacts with the ABSDF insurgents abroad to cany out subversive activities, including the distribution of anti-government pamphlets, have been uncovered." Kyaw Thein said.

The government has accused the ABSDF, ethnic Karen rebels and communists of planting a bomb that killed five people December 25 at a pagoda compound where a Buddhist relic was on display.

The groups accuse the government of staging the bombing to Justify a security crackdown in the wake of student demonstrations in December that were the biggest since 1988.

Since January 18. the government has sentenced 34 people to seven-year prison terms following secret trials for allegedly fomenting the unrest. Their names have not been disclosed.