Burmese heroine goes from hospital to house arrest
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be released from the Rangoon hospital where she underwent surgery, and will go straight into house arrest at her home in the capital, her doctor said today.
“She will go home today ... at night,” Dr Tin Myo Win said outside the Asia Royal Cardiac and Medical Centre.
Suu Kyi, 58, has been detained by Burma’s military junta at an undisclosed location since May.
She underwent what was described as a major three-hour gynaecological operation last Friday.
The doctor said that while the Nobel Peace Prize winner would return to her lakeside villa in the capital, she would be kept under house arrest.
“Anybody who wishes to see her once she is home should make arrangements through the authorities,” he said, reading a statement.
Asked whether Suu Kyi would be allowed to have visitors, Tin Myo Win said: “You have to test” the authorities.
“She thanks you for your warm concern and is confident that you have an equal concern for her supporters,” Tin Myo Win added.
Suu Kyi, the widow of an Oxford Don, and many of her supporters were detained in May after she and her followers were caught in a violent clash with a pro-government mob in northern Burma.
She was held at an undisclosed location until she was admitted to hospital last week.
Burma’s military seized power in 1988 after crushing a pro-democracy uprising. It held elections in 1990, but refused to recognise the results after Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party won.
