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Going Free?(Aung San Suu Kyi )(Brief Article)
Burma's ruling military junta has spent more than a decade trying to silence famed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with lengthy bouts of house arrest. But the generals now seem ready to drop that strategy. The Burmese capital was abuzz last week after members of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) announced that she would be released within days, after 19 months of confinement in her Rangoon house. The release appears to be hung up on haggling between the junta and Suu Kyi, who doesn't want any limits placed on her movements or ability to communicate if she's freed.
It's happened before. After releasing her from six years of confinement in 1995, the generals continued to harass Suu Kyi's party and jail its members. Will things be different this time? Not likely, though the two sides have been holding secret "confidence-building" talks since October 2000. Last week, in an unprecedented move, the junta let dozens of foreign journalists ...
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