WORLD IN BRIEF : MYANMAR : Leading Dissident Will Not Be Freed
A spokesman for Myanmar’s military regime indicated that a leading dissident under house arrest since last July will not be released next week as scheduled and warned her party not to try to declare a government because of its landslide election victory. Maj. Gen. Khim Nyunt, head of military intelligence, said the junta will not yield to international pressure for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and a transfer of power to her National League for Democracy. Suu Kyi, daughter of the country’s foremost independence hero when it was Burma, was placed under house arrest July 20, 1989. She has never been formally charged.
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