Two Burmese opposition activists have been arrested in Cambodia for allegedly seeking military training and supplies to use in their struggle against the Burmese military government.

A Cambodian government spokesman said the men who are reported to be members of a previously unknown rebel group based in northern Burma had entered the country illegally and approached former members of the rebel Khmer Rouge now serving in the Cambodian army.

Correspondents say Burmese resistance groups often smuggle weapons from Cambodia where there is a glut of arms after more than twenty years of civil war.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service