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Aung San Suu Kyi 'leaves home'
19/11/2007 14:02 - (SA)
Yangon - Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi left her home for about one hour on Monday to travel to a military facility used for government meetings, witnesses said.
Witnesses said a convoy picked up the Nobel peace prize winner from her home, where she has been confined for 12 of the last 18 years, and took her to a house often used for official meetings.
Government officials and members of Aung San Suu Kyi's own National League for Democracy (NLD) party could not immediately be reached to confirm details of the meeting.
She had been taken to the same house on October 25 and November 9 to meet with a junta official appointed as a liaison with her.
The meeting came as regional leaders were meeting in Singapore for the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which was preparing to confront Myanmar's junta over its deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests in September.
A UN rights investigator, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, ended a five-day mission to Myanmar last Thursday to examine the casualties and detentions from the suppression of the protests led by Buddhist monks around the country.
The government says 15 people were killed in Yangon and about 3 000 arrested during the crackdown, although diplomats say the toll is likely much higher.
The international community, especially the United States and the European Union, wants ASEAN to push Myanmar's generals towards democracy.
So far it has been reluctant to take any punitive action against the nation formerly known as Burma.
- AFP
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