Freedom for Suu Kyi "in one or two days"
Yangon (AsiaNews) Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is looking at the likelihood of her release from house arrest in the next day or two. The leader of the pro-democratic group, the National League for Democracy, has spent the last eleven months in confinement since the group's headquarters were closed in a crackdown last May.
The United Nations envoy to Myanmar, Razali Ismail stated that after the release of Aung Shwe and another top NLD figure, U Lwin, last week, and the decision to re-open the movement's headquarters are all indications that the restrictions imposed against Suu Kyi will be lifted shortly.
"We hope Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will be released within a day or two. We don't know for sure whether this is going to happen, but we are hopeful," said the chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung Shwe, who was himself released from detention last Tuesday.
"We want our leader to be released soon, because without her we are completely helpless," said an emotional Kyu Kyu Mar, who was elected to parliament in the 1990 elections won by the NLD.
Mong Mong Gyi, another elected official stated, "The opening of our offices and the releasing of our leaders will be meaningless unless we can move around freely."
Suu Kyi has spent nine of the last fifteen years in detainment, much of it separated from her family, for her peaceful political activism calling for free elections and true democratic reform in the military junta. She is rumoured to be freed in preparation for a national constitutional convention beginning May 17th, an initial step in the military regime's "roadmap to democracy".
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