Myanmar junta denies Suu Kyi on hunger strike

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

YANGON (AFP) — Myanmar's ruling junta denied Tuesday that detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi had gone on hunger strike, but rumours persisted after she apparently refused to receive food deliveries.

Exiled Myanmar dissidents in India and Thailand reported that the Nobel Peace Prize winner last accepted fresh food supplies on August 15.

"It is just rumours, it is not true," said a Myanmar government official who refused to be named. "We have not got any (political) demands from her."

Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), said they were unable to confirm or deny the report as they were not allowed to keep in regular touch with their leader, who is under house arrest in Yangon.

"We haven't heard anything about it. So...