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| Burma’s Suu Kyi to Return To House Arrest From Hospital | |
| 2003-09-26 | |
| EFL/FU Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be kept under house arrest following her release from a hospital where she underwent surgery, her personal physician said Friday. Suu Kyi, 58, underwent what was described as a major three-hour operation Sept. 19. Her doctor, Tin Myo Win, has declined to specify the nature of the surgery, but other doctors have said it was a gynecological procedure. ok - don’t need to hear the details, thank you "She will go home today ... at night," Tin Myo Win told diplomats and reporters outside the Asia Royal Cardiac and Medical Center. The doctor said that while the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner would return to her lakeside villa in the Burma capital, she would be kept under house arrest. one of the few not diminished by the tarnished other prize winners Suu Kyi was detained in May and held for months in an undisclosed location. The detention further isolated Burma’s ruling junta, as world leaders appealed for Suu Kyi’s release. The junta has said she will be freed but has refused to specify when. "sno-cones in hell?" "Anybody who wishes to see her once she is home should make arrangements through the authorities," Tin Myo Win said. Asked whether Suu Kyi would be allowed visitors, Tin Myo Win said: "You have to test" the authorities.
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| Posted by:Frank G |