Myanmar Dissident Ends Standoff
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has ended a nine-day roadside confrontation with military authorities and returned to Yangon, the capital, an official source said today.
It was not immediately clear why or how the standoff, which began Aug. 24, had ended, the Reuters news agency reported.
Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi, her driver and 14 members of her National League for Democracy party were stopped by police as they headed out of Yangon and refused to heed government requests to return home.
It was the first time that Suu Kyi, 55, had tried to leave Yangon since another roadside confrontation in 1998 that lasted 13 days, until deteriorating health and dehydration forced her to return home.
On Friday, Myanmar’s foreign minister, Win Aung, said Suu Kyi was trying to attract international attention by provoking authorities into arresting her.
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