SUU KYI/DYING HUSBAND/SPDC (r)

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RE: SUU KYI/DYING HUSBAND/SPDC
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We certainly believe that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as a mother and wife must 
be aware of all the "Dukkhas" like these that she must bear when she 
decided to lead the country toward achieving democracy. On the same 
note, we also believe that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi would know what to 
decide based on all aspects of the true situations that surrounds her 
including the painful news about the present state of her husband.

As far as SPDC is concerned, we hope that they will issue Dr Aris a visa 
based on humanitarian grounds leaving "who is visiting whom" entirely to 
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband and of course on Dr Aris's actual 
condition to travel. SPDC should not take much pain or time in deciding 
on their behalf. 

The decisions should be all theirs and should be treated as purely 
personal matters and a special case to be considered. Let's be honest 
for once.

With metta,

Minn Kyaw Minn
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>Suu Kyi Should Visit Dying Husband - Myanmar 
>09:20 a.m. Mar 18, 1999 Eastern 
>YANGON, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government said Thursday 
it
>was reviewing a visa request from the dying British husband of 
opposition
>leader Aung San Suu Kyi but said it would be more sensible for her to 
visit
>him. 
>
>``The government of Myanmar suggests that Ms. Suu Kyi, who is in 
perfect
>health, travel to England to respond to her husband's dying wish to see 
her.
>She has so far refused to go,'' it said. 
>

>The military has long sought a way to get Suu Kyi, the biggest thorn in 
its
>side for a decade, to leave the country. 
>
>She has not left for the past 11 years, fearing she would not be 
allowed
>back if she did. She appears unlikely to do so now, whatever the
>circumstances. 
>
>Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her courage in standing 
up
>to military rule, has not left Myanmar since she returned to Yangon in 
early
>1988 to nurse her dying mother. 
>
>
>Sources close to Suu Kyi's family say her husband, Michael Aris, an 
Oxford
>academic who has been denied a visa to Myanmar for the past three 
years, is
>dying from prostate cancer that has spread to his spine and lungs. 
>
>The government said in a statement it would provide Suu Kyi ''all 
possible
>assistance'' to join her husband. It did not say if she would be 
allowed to
>return if she did so. 
>
>``Dr. Aris has requested a visa to visit Myanmar to see his wife, which 
the
>government is currently reviewing,'' it said. 
>
>``Dr. Aris' medical condition is extremely grave, however, and 
government
>health authorities are surprised that he would request such a difficult 
trip
>at this time. 
>
>``To undertake a trip to Myanmar under such conditions... would appear 
to be
>both irresponsible and inhumane, and the government is reluctant to
>encourage or endorse such an action.'' 
>
>The sources close to Suu Kyi's family said that even if Aris were 
granted a
>visa he was not fit enough to travel. But he would do so if his 
condition
>improved, despite fears he might not survive the journey. 
>
>The two have not seen one another since mid-1995, shortly after she was
>released from six years of house arrest. 
>
>In London, the British Foreign Office said it supported Aris' 
application
>for a visa to Myanmar, which it refers to by its former name, Burma. 
>
>``We understand the Burmese authorities are still considering the
>application and we hope that they will give a positive answer,'' a 
Foreign
>Office spokesman said. ``There are compelling humanitarian grounds to 
issue
>him a visa.'' 
>
>A spokeswoman at St. Anthony's College in Oxford University, where Aris
>teaches Tibetan studies, said he had recently spent a few days in a 
local
>hospital. 
>
>``He was diagnosed as having prostate cancer. His doctors have 
prescribed a
>course of treatment he will take as an outpatient,'' she said. 
>
>Tin Oo, vice chairman of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, told
>Reuters Wednesday that the opposition leader was very worried about her
>husband but could not leave Myanmar. 
>
>``The lady has been working hard for democracy, for the people and the
>party, she is worried about him, but she will never leave the country
>because she knows that if she does, the military regime will never 
allow her
>to return.'' 
>
>She is the daughter of Myanmar's foremost national hero Aung San, who 
won
>independence from Britain in the 1940s. She has shown a steely 
determination
>to promote democracy since emerging as a dissident leader during a 
national
>uprising in 1988. 
>

>

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