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BBC-Burmese opposition leader repor



Thursday, August 20, 1998 Published at 11:22 GMT 12:22 UK 

Burmese opposition leader reportedly weakened by nine-day protest 

The Burmese opposition party, the National League for Democracy, says the
health of its leader Aung San Suu Kyi is failing and she may be forced to
give up her latest roadside protest against government travel restrictions.


The party said she would be prepared to return home if the government
agreed to release jailed opposition politicians. 

The statement came one day before a deadline, set by the National League
for Democracy, for the military government to convene a parliament elected
in 1990. 

Aung San Suu Kyi has been blocked by the security forces on all her recent
attempts to leave the capital. 

Last month a similar sit-in ended on its sixth day when the authorities
seized her car and drove her back to Rangoon. 



>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service