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Reuters-Even though she is a devout



Subject: Reuters-Even though she is a devout Buddhist, she is definitely 

Even though she is a devout Buddhist, she is definitely
09:07 p.m Mar 28, 1999 Eastern
``Even though she is a devout Buddhist, she is definitely not leaving Yangon
to perform rites for her husband there. She is performing Buddhist rites for
him here. On the seventh day on Friday she will hold a major ceremony in her
house,'' he told Reuters in a telephone interview from Yangon.

Aris died on his 53rd birthday on Saturday to illness from cancer of the
prostate.

On Friday, the Myanmar government said it would allow Suu Kyi to return to
Yangon if she went to England to see her terminally ill husband, provided
she did not politicise the visit. But Suu Kyi rejected the offer, the
government said.

On Sunday the government again offered her assistance to visit England for
the funeral, but did not repeat its guarantee she could return after the
trip.