Suu Kyi brought back to Yangon
AFP, Yangon
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been brought back to Yangon by the ruling military and was being held in an intelligence guest house yesterday, her party sources said. "We saw a convoy enter into the annex of Insein prison. Aung San Suu Kyi was separated from the rest of the entourage and taken to a military intelligence guesthouse in downtown Yangon," a source from the National League for Democracy (NLD) told AFP. She was brought back in a military-escorted convoy at around 2:00 am Sunday (1930 GMT Saturday), the source said, adding the military had ordered people to stay inside along the route she travelled. Aung San Suu Kyi was put under "protective custody" in northern Myanmar along with 18 members of her entourage after clashes between her supporters and a pro-junta mob Friday left four dead and 50 injured. Meanwhile international pressure to release Suu Kyi has been mounting on the government. Britain and France have called on the Myanmar junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi immediately and to begin genuine talks with the pro-democracy opposition. The Australian government summoned the ambassador of Myanmar yesterday to demand the immediate release of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of her movement. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said he had instructed Australia's ambassador in Myanmar to convey the same protest to that country's military rulers.
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