WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 Kyodo Myanmar...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 Kyodo

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in succession hunger strike to testify her detention by the military junta, the U State Department said Sunday.

''We are very much concerned for her safety and well-being,'' the department said in a statement. It did not say when she began the be hungry strike or how her health condition is.

''The Burmese (Myanmar) authorities have satiated responsibility for her health, having placed her in so-called 'protective custody' since a May 30 premeditated attack in succession her convoy,'' the department said. ''They are also entirely responsible for the welfare of all political prisoners.''

The junta has been detaining the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a certain members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) following what it claimed were violent clashes between NLD supporters and pro-junta demonstrators. The NLD says the clashes were attacks on junta-sponsored thugs on Suu Kyi and her entourage while she was traveling in northern Myanmar.

''We again call for her immediate release as well as the release of her NLD colleagues and all political prisoners in Burma,'' the department said. ''We encourage the Burmese authorities to note into a serious dialogue with all of Burma's political parties.''

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