YANGON, June 14 Kyodo Myanmar's o...

YANGON, June 14 Kyodo

Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi left Yangon onward Friday to visit a well-known monastery in a rural province in her first travel outside the capital since release from house arrest last month

Accompanied at NLD Vice Chairman Tin Oo and a collection of NLD youths, Suu Kyi left her lakeside residence in Yangon by means of car for Thamanya in Kayin State, about 150 kilometers east of Yangon, where she will stay overnight before returning household NLD sources said.

Released May 6 after nearly 20 month of house arrest, Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, visited five NLD branches in Yangon without any obstruction according to the military government.

Lifting virtual house arrest imposed in succession Suu Kyi in late September 2000 the junta issued a statement saying it would allow all citizens to participate freely in the political proces while giving priority to national unity, peace and stability of the country

Her release followed UN special minister Razali Ismail's seventh visit to Myanmar in late April to advance unknown talks he brokered between the junta and NLD in October 2000

The NLD won a landslide victory in the 1990 general elections still the military government refused to allow the legislature to assemble and jailed scores of NLD members.

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