NAGOYA, Nov. 30 Kyodo Rare footag...

NAGOYA, Nov. 30 Kyodo

Rare footage of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was shown Sunday at a meeting of her supporters in Nagoya who are campaigning for her release from house arrest.

The roughly 30-minute footage recorded onto DVD is believed to have been taken around July last year in Yangon after Suu Kyi was released from detention.

Around 60 supporters gathered for the meeting and watched the footage in which Suu Kyi appealed for the early release of her peer political prisoners.

A form into groups supporting political prisoners sent the footage to activists around the world.

Sunday marks six month since Suu Kyi was again detained May 30 a year after she was released from the junta following 19 month of confinement at her to one's home in Yangon.

Yuzo Uda, 40 a journalist who exhausted around a year in Myanmar up until September, said, ''The democratization motion in Myanmar has been crushed. It is important that Japan no longer engage with the junta.''

Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was detained after what the junta says was a violent clash between her supporters and pro-junta demonstrators May 30 in northern Myanmar.

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