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A Second successive day of roadbloc



Subject: A Second successive day of roadblock at Daw Suu's house

13Oct96 BURMA: ACCESS TO SUU KYI'S HOME STILL BARRED IN BURMA. 06:38 GMT  
RANGOON, Oct 13 (Reuter) - For a second successive day, police on Sunday
barred access to Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's residence to
prevent any public gatherings around her home, witnesses said.
Checkpoints were set up early on Saturday to bar access to University Avenue
in Rangoon along which the democracy leader's lakeside house is located.
During Saturday police at the checkpoints turned away several hundred people
who had come to see if Suu Kyi would be holding her traditional weekend
public gatherings from the gates of her house, witnesses said.
About 100 people were also removed from one of the checkpoints late on
Saturday by police vehicles and taken off by bus, they added. A relative of
one of those taken away from the area told Reuters on Sunday his family
member was freed after questioning.
Police and government officials were not available for comment on whether
there were any new detentions in this latest move against Suu Kyi by the
ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC).
Suu Kyi herself was not available for comment as the telephone to her house
appeared to be cut.
On Saturday, a government official said the road had been closed to prevent
Suu Kyi from holding weekend public gatherings which the ruling military
government feared could be used as an excuse by some people to create
disturbances.
The SLORC has declared Suu Kyi's weekend public meetings illegal
The official said he did not know when the checkpoints would be removed but
residents in the area believed they would go on Monday.
Access was also barred because Suu Kyi had planned to hold a meeting of some
party officials of her National League for Democracy (NLD) at her home early
on Saturday, the official said.
The SLORC last cut off the road to to Suu Kyi's house from September 26 to
October 8 to stop her holding a planned NLD party congress from September 27-29.
At the time, the SLORC also arrested 573 NLD party activists in a major
crackdown but later released all of them in stages.  
(c) Reuters Limited 1996
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