Reuters: Aung San Suu Kyi Refuses to Meet with Doctors and Government Liasons

Reuters is reporting that Nobel Peace laureate and Burma's prime minister-elect Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to meet with her doctor and Minister of Relations Aung Kyi, who is in charge of liaising with her. She did meet with her lawyer, Kyi Win, though. Kyi Win quoted her as saying: "I am well, but I have lost some weight. I am a little tired and I need to rest." As mentioned before here at the blog, Suu Kyi refused to meet with U.N. Special Envoy Imbrahim Gambari during his visit to Burma last month. More recently, she failed to make a food pick-up at her home, where she has spent 13 of the last 19 years under house arrest. This fueled speculation that she may have begun a hunger strike. A spokesman for her National League for Democracy party said, "I think she's unhappy about not receiving any reply from the regime in response to her suggestions for a reconciliation process. She had given hers to Aung Kyi in their previous meetings."