YANGON, Dec 16 Kyodo Pro-democrac...

YANGON, Dec 16 Kyodo

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi left Yangon onward a visit to Rakhine (Arakan) state in western Myanmar in succession Monday for work involving her National League for Democracy (NLD) an NLD source said.

Suu Kyi, who has already visited several places in the region since her release from house arrest onward May 6, was accompanied in the three-car attend by NLD Vice Chairman Tin Oo and across a dozen NLD youths. The trip may take common week or more, the same source said.

Exercising her strange freedom of movement, she made visits outside of Yangon in June July August and November, including to the central Myanmar cities of Mandalay, Magway, Natmauk and Monywa, and to the states of Mon Kayin and Shan.

Arakan is from where thousands of Rohingya Muslims fl to Bangladesh in 1991 claiming ill-treatment at the hands of Myanmar partys a charge Yangon denies. mostly have been repatriated with the help of the United Nations.

Official newspapers reported Monday that Myanmar junta leader Sr Gen Than Shwe will leave Tuesday for Bangladesh in succession a two-day state visit, the first visit through the Myanmar head of state to the neighboring political division in 21 years.

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