Bangkok, Tuesday
BURMA'S military rulers met opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi today
in her first encounter with the junta since she was put under house
arrest in 1989.
Burmese television showed Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner,
meeting top General Than Shwe and military intelligence chief Lt-General
Khin Nyunt at an army guest house in Rangoon.
Suu Kyi, 49, the leader of the opposition National League for
Democracy, has a British husband and is the daughter of Burma's
independence hero General Aung San. She has been under house arrest
since July 1989.
The junta, which seized power a year earlier after killing hundreds of
pro-democracy protesters, has previously said she would be released on
condition that she leave Burma.
Suu Kyi has ruled out leaving voluntarily, but said she was ready to
discuss anything else.
Despite her arrest, her National League for Democracy won a landslide
victory in a 1990 General Election, whose result was ignored by the
generals.--Reuter.
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