Burmese activists concerned about safety of Suu Kyi

According to various sources from Myanmar,Aung Din alleged,the military authorities have recruited some people with criminal records in Yangon with a plan to attack her if she continues to challenge the regime and its implementation of the sham election results.

She had previously been attacked by the pro-regime militia,notoriously known as “Swan-Arr-Shin” (Power Rangers) in the past several times,a militia organised and supported by the Union Solidarity and Development Association,which recently transformed into the USDP,he said.

Aung San Suu Kyi was also released from detention before,only to be re-arrested,he noted. She was under house arrest for six years from July 1989 to July 1995.

She was again arrested and detained for 18 months from September 21,2000 to May 6,2002.

On May 30,2003,she and her party members were brutally attacked by the regime’s militias near Depayin Township in central Myanmar.

Scores of her party members were killed,and she was detained again until today.

The Burmese democratic icon spent more than 15 years under detention between 1989 and 2010.

“Although the regime has repeatedly attempted to attack,assassinate and isolate her from the public,her popularity remains highest among the public as the people admire her as the one and only national leader who can bring freedom,justice and democracy to their country,” he said.

“Her release is a hollow gesture to appease the regime’s detractors,not a sign of political reform,” Aung Din said.

“The international community needs to continue to pressure the regime to secure her safety,prevent her re-arrest as well as demand the immediate and unconditional release of all remaining 2,200 political prisoners,” he said.

Freedom Now,a legal advocacy organisation based in Washington,who represents Aung San Suu Kyi as her international counsel as retained by a member of her family,also raised similar concerns.

“Unfortunately,her release alone is virtually meaningless until the junta enters into an irreversible process of dialogue resulting in national reconciliation between the junta,the National League for Democracy,and ethnic groups and a restoration of democracy to Burma,” said Freedom Now president Jared Genser.