BBC-Burmese opposition ask for doct

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Monday, August 17, 1998 Published at 14:43 GMT 15:43 UK 

Burmese opposition ask for doctor for Suu Kyi 

The Burmese opposition party have asked the country's military government
to allow the personal doctor of the party's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to
visit her at a roadblock south-west of the capital Rangoon. 

Miss Suu Kyi is on the sixth day of a protest against travel restrictions
she says are imposed on her by the military authorities. 

The government says her journey to visit party colleagues in a nearby
townis unsafe. 

Last month a similar sit-in ended on its sixth day when the authorities
seized Miss Suu Kyi's car and drove her back to the capital. 

There is no independent information on Miss Suu Kyi's condition; the
military say they have provided her with fruit, cakes and drinks. 



>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service