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According to senior Myanmar diplomat, the Myanmar government may free the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi before the 2010 elections.
These remarks of Min Lwin, who is a Myanmar government official, comes during an overseas visit which goes in hands with the needs of the junta that Suu Kyi should be released at the earliest. But the Myanmar officials have denied disclosing any particular time frame. No steps have been adopted by the Myanmar government for releasing the democratic icon, even though they have mentioned that.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi has been detained for 14 of the past 20 years. A court recently sentenced the 64-year-old to an additional 18 months of house arrest for briefly sheltering an uninvited American.
“There is a plan to release her soon ... so she can organise her party,” Min Lwin, a director-general in the Foreign Ministry, said.
