Group Says Suu Kyi's Doctors Barred (r)

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Re: Group says Suu Kyi's doctor barred
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>Suu Kyi has offered to end her protest if the government releases >from 
prison members of her party elected to parliament and all those 
>arrested after May this year. 
>
>``No detained NLD members have been freed yet,'' Tin Oo said Sunday. 


Though her protests have been widely seen as non-violent in nature, the 
military regime has ignored her offer to end her protest and let Daw 
Aung San Suu Kyi and her three colleagues remained stranded in a van 19 
miles west of the capital for twelve days.  


>
>``The personal physicians of Aung San Suu Kyi were not allowed to >see 
her Saturday,'' said Tin Oo, the vice chairman of Suu Kyi's >National 
League for Democracy. 
>``They waited for a response from the authorities, but they did not 
>get any. The authorities did not give any reason. We are trying to >get 
permission today,'' Tin Oo, a former general, defense minister >and 
Buddhist monk, said. 

Under the circumstances, we cannot let Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's health 
deteriorating away in this manner. It is better for everyone that she 
gets her health restored before her kidneys are seriously impaired or 
other complications arise.

Therefore, we urge that other leaders of the NLD should make immediately 
plan to take care of that.


Minn Kyaw Minn
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>Group Says Suu Kyi's Doctors Barred
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>.c The Associated Press 
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>YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military government has barred 
doctors from
>visiting opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is suffering from 
kidney
>problems, her political party said Sunday. 
>
>Suu Kyi has entered the 12th day of her nonviolent protest on a rural 
road
>against the military restricting her from traveling outside Yangon. She 
and
>three colleagues are camped inside a van 19 miles west of the capital. 
>
>The authorities are refusing to let her proceed to the city of Bassein, 
where
>she intended to meet members of her political party. 
>
>``The personal physicians of Aung San Suu Kyi were not allowed to see 
her
>Saturday,'' said Tin Oo, the vice chairman of Suu Kyi's National League 
for
>Democracy. 
>
>``They waited for a response from the authorities, but they did not get 
any.
>The authorities did not give any reason. We are trying to get 
permission
>today,'' Tin Oo, a former general, defense minister and Buddhist monk, 
said. 
>
>Suu Kyi's doctors were permitted to visit her twice earlier in the 
week. They
>said after examining her the first time that she was suffering from low 
blood
>pressure and some kidney problems. On Friday, they said her blood 
pressure had
>improved. 
>
>Suu Kyi has offered to end her protest if the government releases from 
prison
>members of her party elected to parliament and all those arrested after 
May
>this year. 
>
>``No detained NLD members have been freed yet,'' Tin Oo said Sunday. 
>
>The NLD set Aug. 21 as a deadline for the military to convene the 
parliament
>elected in 1990. The NLD won 82 percent of the seats in the assembly, 
but the
>military, which has ruled Myanmar, also known as Burma, since 1962, 
ignored
>the result. 
>
>After the deadline passed, the NLD announced it would call a parliament
>session on its own, setting up a serious confrontation with the 
government. 
>
>The military responded with mass arrests of NLD members on previous 
occasions
>the party attempted to hold meetings. 
>
>An editorial in Sunday's state-run New Light of Myanmar said the 
government
>``has achieved unprecedented success.'' 
>
>``However the threat of neocolonialists and their lap dogs are working 
for a
>recurrence of the 1988 nightmare, the trauma of which still haunts 
those who
>have gone through it,'' it said. 
>
>The military brutally crushed a nationwide democracy uprising in 1988 
by
>gunning down more than 3,000 protesters. The military has said only a 
few
>dozen died. 
>
>It frequently accuses Suu Kyi and her colleagues of being controlled by
>Western countries intent on subjecting Myanmar to neocolonialist 
control. 
>
>Suu Kyi is the winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent
>campaign to bring democracy to Myanmar. 
>
>Myanmar was a colony of Great Britain from 1824 to 1948. Under Gen. Ne 
Win,
>Myanmar closed itself off to the outside world from 1962-88. 
>
>


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