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Burma refuses to release Suu Kyi | |
2003-06-04 | |
International calls for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who has been held incommunicado by the Burmese junta since Friday, have gone unheeded. Khin Maung Wing, Burma's Deputy Foreign Minister, denied rumours that Ms Suu Kyi had suffered a head injury during a riot in northern Burma in which at least four people died. He told diplomats that "she was not hurt at all", and added that the 1991 Nobel peace laureate was being kept "temporarily" in If she's dead, there's going to be a big riot. Diplomatic sources said Ms Suu Kyi was being detained at a government guesthouse in Rangoon. Leaders of her National League for Democracy are also in custody. Because Ms Suu Kyi was not put under house arrest at her lakeside home in the capital, some supporters fear she might be badly hurt. Matter of time before the generals decide to whack her.
Especially if she's on a ventilator. Mr Ismail helped instigate a secret dialogue with the military that resulted in Ms Suu Kyi's release from house arrest in May last year. How 'bout that — UN got one right. | |
Posted by:Steve White |
#2 How about "Democratic People's Republic of FED-EX"? -or- STAPLESstan? -or- ENRONovia? |
Posted by: Watcher 2003-06-04 21:51:59 |
#1 Did the change it back to Burma? Or is it still Myanmar? Maybe they can sell the naming rights. |
Posted by: tu3031 2003-06-04 10:00:38 |