Mizzima News

New Delhi - Burma's detained pro-democracy leader has accepted two deliveries of fresh food supplies after rejecting such offerings for the past month, her party spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Nyan Win, spokesperson of the National League for Democracy, said their group was able to send two food baskets to the party leader's house on Rangoon's University Avenue on Monday night and on Tuesday morning.

"She took both the supplies yesterday and this morning," Nyan Win told Mizzima, adding that the food was sent to her by a NLD youth member, Myint Soe.

Aung San Suu Kyi had previously refused to accept any food supplies for almost one full month, since mid-August, leading observers to speculate she was on hunger strike.

But Nyan Win said she had refused to accept food supplies as a demonstration against the government's intransigence to meet her demands.

Kyi Win, the Nobel Peace Laureate's personal lawyer who met with her last week, said the government has now agreed to allow her to receive letters from her family and to receive foreign magazines. The junta also agreed to ease restrictions on the movement of her aide, Khin Khin Win, and her daughter, Win Pa Pa.

Nyan Win said, "She has agreed to re-accept food supplies, after the government partially met her demands."

While he is unclear of the entirety of the demands put forth by Burma's democracy icon, Nyan Win said they included the removal of all restrictions besides detention.

The NLD, which had expressed concern for their party leader's health condition in an earlier statement, on Tuesday issued another statement clarifying that the Nobel Peace Laureate had never staged a hunger strike.

The statement said Aung San Suu Kyi had refused to accept food supplies in demonstration against the government's refusal to accept her demands.

"She and her aides have been living on limited food, and with her aide Khin Khin Win falling sick, she had given most of the limited food to her aide. That caused her to be weak," the statement said.