Myanmar opposition leader to be put under house arrest

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Myanmar opposition leader to be put under house arrest

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) will leave Friday the private Asia Royal Hospital where she underwent a successful major surgical operation on Sept.19 and be put under house arrest, ASSK's personal doctor Tin Myo Win quoted the authorities concerned as saying here Friday.

The 58-year-old ASSK was hospitalized in Yangon on Sept. 17 for an unspecified gynecological condition when she was under detention by the government in an unknown location since May 30.

ASSK, general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), was arrested by the military government in the name of protection following a bloody clashes between government supporters and NLD supporters when she was on a political trip to the northern Myanmar.

This is the third time for ASSK to be placed under house arrest.

ASSK had been confined to her Yangon residence for the second time from September 2000 to May 2002 when she defied the government's travel restriction by forcing her way to Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city. The first time when she was put under house arrest lasted for six years from July 1989 to July 1995 for alleged endangering the state out of her political activities.

During the last six days, the Indonesian president's special envoy Ali Alatas, the Thai prime minister's special envoy Surakiart Sathirathai, and the Thai foreign minister visited Myanmar respectively to seek the release of ASSK.

United Nations special envoy Razali Ismail will arrive here next week for the same issue.

The NLD overwhelmingly won the government-sponsored 1990 general election with 392 parliamentary seats out of 485.

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