Narinjara news
Suu Kyi taken into
‘protective custody’
Dhaka, 1 June 03: Burma Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi and 19
members of her National League for Democracy Party have take into “ protective
custody’ after a fight broke out between the her supporters and pro-government
protesters in northern Burma, according to the independent quoted from AP.
The conflict erupted late Friday, leaving four people dead and 50 injured,
Brig. Than Tun said. He
denied ‘reports that Suu Kyi’s car had been shot at,
and said Suu kyi and the NLD members were unharmed in
the accident.
“ For their own security they are now under temporary
protective custody,” he told a press conference.
Than Tun said the unrest had been caused by
inflammatory speeches made by Suu Kyi that were critical of the military
government.
He said the
Earlier, witness said on condition of anonymity that about 10 plain-clothes
police officers had entered the headquarters before tying a rope around a lock
on the front gate.
The witness said the officers then took photographs of the locked entrance, and
that about 20 police officers had been posted outside the residence of NLD
spokesman U Lwin. Tension between the military
government and the opposition has risen in recent weeks.
The government has issued statements accusing Suu Kyi’s
supporters of physically assaulting “ peaceful” protesters
and causing public panic during her current upcountry tour. The claims have
been echoed by the state media.
The reports follow complaints by Suu Kyi’s
party that a pro-junta groups has been intimidating her supporters and
threatened to run over people lining the road waiting to greet the Nobel Peace
laureate near Mandalay in northern Burma last Sunday. The party also said the
group had hurled a brick that hit her car, but didn't hurt Suu Kyi.
Suu Kyi, whose party won a 1990 general election but was never allowed to
assume power, is nearing the end of a one-month political
tour of the north, her seventh such trip since being freed last May
after 19 months under house arrest.
The democracy leader had been expected to return to
The military has ruled