By SAW YAN NAING
A medical specialist visited pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at her Rangoon home on Thursday and conducted an eye examination. No details of Suu Kyi’s condition were released.
Nyan Win, spokesman of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), told The Irrawaddy on Friday that Dr Kan Nyunt visited the detained NLD leader together with her regular physician, Dr Tin Myo Win.
Kan Nyunt spent one hour with Suu Kyi, while Tin Myo Win remained longer, Nyan Win reported. He said he didn’t know why Suu Kyi’s eyesight had been tested.
The head of the UN office in Rangoon, Navanethem Pillay, called on the Burmese military government on Thursday to release Suu Kyi and other political detainees, estimated to number more than 2,000.
Suu Kyi has spent more than 13 of the past 19 years under house arrest at her Rangoon lakeside home. Her current five year term was illegally extended by one year in May.
In a protest against the extension and the conditions of her detention, Suu Kyi refused to accept deliveries of food and household supplies from mid-August. She relaxed her stand in September after the regime agreed to allow her deliveries of private mail and foreign magazines.
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