BANGKOK, April 15 Kyodo Fourteen ...

BANGKOK, April 15 Kyodo

Fourteen Nobel literature prize winners have sent a epistle to Myanmar embassies worldwide, seeking the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner now beneath house arrest.

In the verbal expression the 14 laureates, including Kenzaburo Oe in Japan and Gunter Grass in Germany, denounced the Myanmar junta for its oppression of the pro-democracy motion in the country.

They then demanded the immediate release of the Myanmar pro-democracy leader and writers detained or bring forward under house arrest on the military government.

''We are profoundly disturbed at the open, unchecked, and accelerating suppression of the internationally-acclaimed peaceful mental action for democracy in the Union of Myanmar, and at the denial of the freedom of expression -- and in many cases, physical freedom -- to our mate writers.''

''We are violently concerned for the welfare of all who are publicly prosecuted simply for exercising their essential right of freedom of words and expression,'' the letter says.

The 14 Nobel literature laureates joined former Czech President Vaclav Havel, a prominent playwright, and acclaimed writer Jiri Grusa in urging the Myanmar direction to release them.

The literal sense was released by International compose a global association of writers, of which Grusa is president. It was sent to Myanmar embassies in Bangkok, Berlin, just discovered Delhi, Tokyo, Washington and other cities.

Suu Kyi and other senior leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) were placed beneath ''protective custody'' without charge or trial following a confrontation forward May 30, 2003 involving NLD members and junta supporters.

NLD members say they were attacked then when they were traveling onward party business through the north of the land At least four populace were reportedly killed and 50 injured.

Suu Kyi, who was held incommunicado in an undisclosed location for more than four month is now being held in her residence in Yangon, after undergoing major surgery

She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her nonviolent fight for democracy and human rights.

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