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Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi refuses food for three weeks
Rangoon - Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has for the past three weeks refused food deliveries to her home-cum-jail in a hunger strike against her detention, opposition sources confirmed Friday.
The National League for Democracy (NLD) said Suu Kyi had refused to receive food packages from friends for the past three weeks to protest her unlawful detention which has "exceeded the legal limit."
Suu Kyi has been under house detention in her family home in Rangoon since May 2003, on charges of disturbing the peace.
The detention followed an attack by pro-military thugs on Suu Kyi's convoy in Tepeyin, Sagaing division in northern Burma on May 30, 2003. Several of her followers were killed in the melee.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been kept in near complete isolation, allowed monthly visits by her doctor and occasional visits by UN special envoys.
Last month she refused to meet with UN special envoy to Burma Ibrahim Gambari on the grounds that he had done nothing to secure her freedom.
Over the past two months Suu Kyi has been allowed three meetings with her lawyer Kyi Win, which is unusual.
Under Burma emergency law political prisoners can only be kept under detention for a maximum of five years on charges of disturbing the peace, but Suu Kyi's detention was last May extended for another six months, raising legal questions.
Burma's ruling junta has been sending mixed signals about the duration of Suu Kyi's incarceration.
There have been hints that she may be released within six months, but many observers believe it is unlikely that she will be released before the next general election slated for 2010.
Suu Kyi's NLD party won the 1990 polls by a landslide, but the party has been denied power by the military for 18 years and she has been kept under house arrest for around 13 of the past 18 years.
Burma has been under military rule since 1962. Ironically, it was Suu Kyi's father, Aung San, who fathered the military establishment as part of the country's independence movement from its former colonial master Britain.
Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, is deemed Burma's democracy icon, and one of the few opposition leaders with enough popular and international support to undermine the military's monopoly of political power in the south-east Asian nation.
Bangkok Post News Article.
(dpa)
Rangoon - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused food deliveries to her home-cum-jail for the past three weeks in a fast to protest her detention.
The National League for Democracy (NLD) confirmed that Suu Kyi had refused to receive food packages from friends for the past three weeks to protest her unlawful detention which has "exceeded the legal limit."
Suu Kyi has been under house detention in her family home in Rangoon since May 2003, on charges of disturbing the peace.
The detention followed an attack by pro-military thugs on Suu Kyi's convoy in Tepeyin, Sagaing division in northern Burma on May 30, 2003. Several of her followers were killed in the melee.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been kept in near complete isolation, allowed monthly visits by her doctor and occasional visits by UN special envoys.
Last month she refused to meet with UN special envoy to Burma Ibrahim Gambari on the grounds that he had done nothing to secure her freedom.
Over the past two months Suu Kyi has been allowed three meetings with her lawyer Kyi Win, which is unusual.
Under Burmese emergency law political prisoners can only be kept under detention for a maximum of five years on charges of disturbing the peace, but Suu Kyi's detention was last May extended for another six months, raising legal questions.
The Burmese ruling junta has been sending mixed signals about the duration of Suu Kyi's incarceration.
There have been hints that she may be released within six months, but many observers believe it is unlikely that she will be released before the next general election slated for 2010.
Suu Kyi's NLD party won the 1990 polls by a landslide, but the party has been denied power by the military for 18 years and she has been kept under house arrest for around 13 of the past 18 years.
Burma has been under military rule since 1962. Ironically, it was Suu Kyi's father, Aung San, who fathered the military establishment as part of the country's independence movement from its former colonial master Britain.
Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, is deemed her country's democracy icon, and one of the few opposition leaders with enough popular and international support to undermine the military's monopoly of political power in the south-east Asian nation.
CNN Reports: Aung San Suu Kyi refuses doctor
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- State-run media in Myanmar says detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to meet her personal physician and a top minister, a further sign of her frustration with the slow pace of talks.The Myanma Ahlin daily said Wednesday that Aung San Suu Kyi refused to attend a meeting with Relations Minister Aung Kyi who was appointed to facilitate reconciliation talks which have been pushed by the United Nations.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years, has also refused to see her personal physician Dr. Tin Myo Win who had come to her residence to give her a medical checkup.
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party say her actions may reflect her growing frustration with the slow pace of reconciliation talks.
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