Eye specialist examines Aung San Suu Kyi

Yangon - An eye doctor has visited Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu
Kyi at her home, where she has been detained for most of the past two decades,
her party said on Friday.
The specialist accompanied the Nobel peace laureate's general physician and his
assistant on a rare visit to her lakeside home in the main city Yangon on Thursday.
"The eye specialist spent about an hour with her," National League of Democracy
spokesperson Nyan Win said, adding he had no further details about her health
condition.



Witnesses said her regular physician Tin Myo Win spent about four hours at the
house, just two weeks after his last visit.
The doctor had given Aung San Suu Kyi an intravenous drip on September 14,
about a month after she began refusing to receive food rations delivered to her
home.
The 63-year-old campaigner has refused to meet with anyone other than her
lawyer and her doctor since early August.
She rejected talks with visiting United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari and the
junta's liaison officer, labour minister Aung Kyi.
Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD won 1990 elections but the military, which has ruled
Burma since 1962, never allowed them to take power. - AFP
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