Police Deployed Around Daw Suu Hom

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Police Deployed Around Aung San Suu Kyi Home

YANGON, July 31 (AFP) - Scores of Myamar police were deployed Friday around
the home of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the headquarters of her
National League for Democracy (NLD), witnesses said.

Supporters were allowed to visit the NLD headquarters but most were turned
away from the Nobel peace laureate's home, they added,

Senior foreign diplomats were refused access to the home of Aung San Suu
Kyi, who was forced back to Yangon by officials Wednesday after a six-day
roadside.

The police were from anti-riot units and many were armed with assault
rifles, the witnesses said.

Scores of police were also deployed at strategic locations throughout Yangon
ahead of the 10th anniversary on August 8 of a massacre of pro-democracy
protestors.

The police, some with assault rifles and heavy machine-guns, were posted at
key intersections and bridges.

Officials said they were on heightened alert because students planned a
protest to mark the anniversary of a 1988 crackdown which saw thousands of
protestors killed, according to the opposition.