Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is being held in primitive conditions by the dictators who run Burma.
The Washington Post has noticed:
Since government-sponsored goons attacked Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters on a provincial road May 30, the Nobel Peace laureate has been in confinement and virtually cut off from the world. In editorials earlier this month urging that Aung San Suu Kyi be freed, we asked, "Where is she?" Now we know -- and the answer could hardly be more discouraging. According to the British Foreign Office, the corrupt generals who rule Burma moved her from a "guesthouse," where she had been held ostensibly for her own protection, to the notorious Insein Prison, a colonial-era monstrosity where old dog kennels have been converted to torture cells. The disclosure of the move came on Aung San Suu Kyi's 58th birthday -- a nice touch, and well in keeping with the usual mode of operation of Burma's ruling thugs, who a few years back refused to allow Aung San Suu Kyi's husband to visit her even when he was dying of cancer.via Washington Post
So has Kofi Annan.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being kept in "deplorable" conditions and should be released immediately. Mr Annan said through a spokesman he "considers the conditions under which she is being held - incommunicado and without charge - to be truly deplorable".Posted by Alan at June 23, 2003 08:09 PM