Illness weakens Myanmar opposition leader

Toronto News.Net
Sunday 10th May, 2009

Serious concerns about the health of Myanmar’s imprisoned party leader Aung San Suu Kyi have begun to arise.

The opposition National League for Democracy has told reporters the 63-year-old opposition leader is suffering from low blood pressure and dehydration and has stopped eating.

Government authorities have stopped visits to her house by doctors, who were assisting her.

On Friday Ms Suu Kyi was put on an intravenous drip, after which her physician was arrested.

The opposition has called on Myanmar's military rulers to allow her to receive medical attention.

Ms Suu Kyi, who won elections in 1990, has been under house arrest since then.

The military regime in the former Burma has refused to hand her political power.

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