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Aung San Suu Kyi refuses to meet doctor and Myanmar minister
Pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to meet a doctor and government minister assigned to liaise with her, according to media reports.
- Agencies
- Published: 15:38 September 3, 2008
Yangon: Pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to meet a doctor and government minister assigned to liaise with her, according to media reports.
The news comes after stories that the iconic campaigner, who has been under house arrest for 13 of the last 19 years, has been refusing food supplies since the middle of August.
State run media in the country said the 63 year old Nobel laureate would only speak to her lawyer Kyi Win.
A spokesman for her National League for Democracy, the party that won a 1990 election landslide only to be denied power by the military, said he had also heard from the lawyer
that Suu Kyi had refused to meet Minister of Relations Aung Kyi on Tuesday.
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