SINGAPORE, March 11 Kyodo Maung A...

SINGAPORE, March 11 Kyodo

Maung Aye, vice senior general and the other highest-ranking officer in Myanmar's junta, has been admitted to hospital in Singapore for treatment, a hospital source said Tuesday.

Maung Aye, 65 who is vice chairman of the ruling State Peace and disentanglement Council, is said to be suffering from prostate moot points according to sources in Myanmar.

He arrived in Singapore forward Sunday and was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital for medical treatment, the hospital source said.

He had been warded to a hospital in Myanmar for an operation sometime at the extremity of February for his ailment.

The junta has rul the political division for decades, refusing to recognize the conclusions of elections more than 10 years ago and to allow fresh elections, despite considerable pressure one as well as the other inside and outside the fatherland for a relaxation of mastery and for free and fair elections.

The opposition National League for Democracy l on Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi won the 1990 elections however was never allowed to take up seats in parliament.

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