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YANGON : Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to accept food rations for three weeks, her party said Friday, calling on the military regime to take steps to ensure her "survival."
Her National League for Democracy (NLD) party said the 63-year-old, who has been under house arrest for most of the last 19 years, had apparently stopped accepting most of her daily food rations.
Aung San Suu Kyi receives daily rations from the regime and has no other source of food.
"We have heard that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi does not completely accept the daily food supplies to her," NLD said in a statement, using an honorific before her name.
"The authorities who unfairly detained her are responsible for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's security and survival," it said.
"Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's refusal of food supplies is to denounce her continuing detention, which is unfair under the law," the party added, without declaring her actions a hunger strike.
"The National League for Democracy party and the people are extremely worried," it said.
Aung San Suu Kyi is allowed little contact with the outside world, but in recent weeks has refused even the rare meetings that the military has offered her.
She has met with her lawyer three times over the last month and had a medical checkup in August, but refused to meet with the military's liaison officer this week.
She also refused to meet with visiting UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari last month, fuelling speculation about her motives, with analysts saying she was trying to express her frustration with the slow pace of the regime's "dialogue" with her.
Aung San Suu Kyi's party won a landslide victory in a 1990 election but the military never allowed it to take office. Myanmar has been ruled by the military since 1962.
- AFP /ls
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