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Myanmar's Suu Kyi refuses to meet doctor - papers

03 Sep 2008 11:07:42 GMT
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YANGON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Myanmar's detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to meet her doctor and a government minister who is in charge of liaising with her, official media said on Wednesday.

She has refused to see anyone except her lawyer Kyi Win, state-controlled newspapers said.

Kyi Win met her on Monday amid reports that the 63-year-old Nobel laureate had refused food supplies since Aug. 15.

"I am well, but I have lost some weight. I am a little tired and I need to rest," Kyi Win quoted her as saying during their 30-minute meeting.

Kyi Win is working on an appeal of the latest extension of Suu Kyi's detention order. She has been in prison or under house arrest for nearly 13 of the past 19 years.

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.

"I think she's unhappy about not receiving any reply from the regime in response to her suggestions for a reconciliation process," the spokesman said. "She had given hers to Aung Kyi in their previous meetings."

In September 2003, the U.S. government reported Suu Kyi had gone on a hunger strike, although the Myanmar regime and the International Committee of the Red Cross said it was untrue. (Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Writing by Raju Gopalakrishnan; Editing by Darren Schuettler)

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