The Burmese junta authorities in Namkham, northern Shan State, found anti-referendum leaflets at the home of a former village headman while looking for heroin users and arrested him, according to local sources.
 
On 11 May evening, authorities in Namkham searched the house of Sai Ngeun Hsoi Hsai, former headman of Wanpong-Wanoi, Kunlong village tract, claiming they were looking for heroin users.  
 
They found vote 'No' leaflets which were distributed before the May 10 referendum. They arrested him instantly and called the village tract secretary Sai Yi Mon to translate what was written.
 
The authorities asked, "Where did you get the leaflets? Who else have these leaflets? If someone comes and tells us, Ngeun Hsoi Hsai will be released."
 
There has been no information about him since his detention, and the authorities have yet released him, said a villager.
 
Sai Yi Mon, who acted as the interpreter, attended the National Convention in the peasants' category along with the secretary of local Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) Sai Kyaw Myint (57), who was assassinated on May 4 while campaigning for public support of the junta's draft charter.