Posts Tagged: "Aung San Suu Kyi"

Update on Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi

by Ed Readicker-Henderson » 9 July 2006 at 12:30 am

Last month, Ethical Traveler’s News Feed included a report of rumors in Burma that the health of legally elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been deteriorating. When the military junta ruling Burma extended Suu Kyi’s house arrest, these rumors strengthened, despite assurances that a high UN official had seen Suu Kyi and her health […]

Amidst Rumors of Ill Health, Suu Kyi’s Detention Extended

by Ed Readicker-Henderson » 31 May 2006 at 12:19 am

Recent promising reports of talks between the Burmese military junta and the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy (NLD), which convincingly won the country’s 1990 elections but was prevented from taking its role in the government, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1956562.stm , have been overshadowed by questions of Aung San Suu Kyi’s health and status. A letter […]