by Mungpi
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:00
New Delhi – Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday was given a rare chance to meet with top leaders of her party – National League for Democracy – according to a party official.
U Aung Thein, an official of the NLD, said party leaders including members of the central executive committee along with spokesperson Nyan Win have met the detained party leader at a military guest house in Rangoon.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was taken this afternoon at approximately 1 p.m. from her lakeside villa on Rangoon's University Avenue, where she has spent 12 of the past 18 years under house arrest, to the meeting venue, Aung Thein said.
"We don't know what they will be discussing," said Aung Thein, adding that it was unclear whether the meeting was exclusively for NLD leadership.
The meeting, which came as a surprise, is the second such permitted gathering since the Burmese democracy icon was last detained in May 2003.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi previously met party leaders on November 9 of last year.
Friday, January 30, 2009
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