2010/01/25

Aung San Suu Kyi 'will be released in Nov

Aung San Suu Kyi 'will be released in November'

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, will be released from house arrest in November, a government minister has told a gathering of local officials, according to two people who attended the meeting.

Published: 7:00AM GMT 25 Jan 2010 Home Minister Major General Maung Oo told the Jan. 21 meeting that Ms Suu Kyi would be freed in November, a month after many observers expect the country to hold its first parliamentary elections in two decades. The information could not be independently verified but the two people who attended the meeting said that the comment was made before an audience of several hundred people in Kyaukpadaung, a town about 350 miles north of the former capital, Rangoon.

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The Nobel peace prize winner has spent 14 of the last 20 years under house arrest. In August a court sentenced her to an additional 18 months after an American, John Yettaw, swam across a lake to her villa in Rangoon and stayed overnight. Burma's junta in the the past has raised expectations of Ms Suu Kyi's imminent release only to dash the hopes of her supporters at home and abroad. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won Burma's last elections, in 1990, by a landslide but was blocked from power after the junta in place since a 1962 coup refused to recognise the result. Outside observers fear an election later this year will be a sham to provide the veneer of credibility the regime has been looking for since 1990.
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