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Doctors allowed to visit Suu Kyi in
- Subject: Doctors allowed to visit Suu Kyi in
- From: byva@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:28:00
Doctors allowed to visit Suu Kyi in seventh day of standoff
The Associated Press
08/18/98 8:20 AM Eastern
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military
government gave permission for opposition leader Aung San
Suu Kyi's doctors to visit her today at the site of a political
protest.
The government also sentenced two members of Suu Kyi's
political party to seven years in jail for handing out
pro-democracy leaflets -- the same offense for which 18
foreigners were deported last week, an exiled students group
said today.
Suu Kyi and three colleagues have been holed up in a van 19
miles west of Yangon for seven days. They were stopped
there by authorities last Wednesday while attempting to
travel to the city of Bassein to meet members of her political
party.
The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner has tried to travel
outside Yangon four times during the past two months and
been stopped by the government at the same checkpoint each
time.
A statement from Suu Kyi's political party, the National
League for Democracy, said her two personal physicians
would visit her today.
A government spokesman said this week Suu Kyi could not
be allowed to travel to Bassein because of threats against
her life.
Suu Kyi is popular with the people of Myanmar, also known
as Burma, but the regime does not allow her to make public
appearances. The only physical attack on Suu Kyi took place
in November 1996 by a mob whose members said they were
paid by the government.
In speeches reported in today's state-run New Light of
Myanmar, three generals in the ruling military council urged
government workers to annihilate Suu Kyi and her
colleagues.
Meanwhile, the All Burma Students Democratic Front, an
exiled students group, said two NLD members, Kyi Toe and
Aung Than Nyunt, were sentenced last Thursday for
distributing leaflets containing a message from their party.
The fate of nine other NLD members were also arrested was
unknown, the group said.
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