Suu Kyi takes a break from campaigning
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March 27, 2012, Tuesday
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MYANMAR democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is taking a few days off from campaigning for this weekend's by-elections while she recovers from exhaustion.
Suu Kyi is suffering from exhaustion and stress, causing her to abruptly suspend her activities during a weekend campaign trip to Mergui in southern Myanmar, a statement from her National League for Democracy party said yesterday.
The 66-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate is now recovering at her home in Yangon and will take a break of four or five days ahead of Sunday's elections.
The statement said Suu Kyi had been weakened by a rigorous schedule that took her all over the country to campaign for her party's candidates, who are running in 44 constituencies. Suu Kyi herself is running in a constituency south of Yangon.
A spokesman for her party said Suu Kyi is also suffering from low blood pressure, which caused her to fall ill in early March while campaigning in Mandalay in central Myanmar.
The polls are the first in which Suu Kyi's party is taking part since it won a 1990 general election, only to have the army refuse to let it take power. Her party's participation represents a qualified endorsement of the political reforms initiated by Myanmar's current government, which came to power in a 2010 election that the NLD boycotted.
A medical checkup last month found that Suu Kyi was in good health. It said exhaustion and stress had been brought on by intense hot weather in Mergui over the weekend, with Suu Kyi having to travel for an extended period in a small boat.
Suu Kyi is suffering from exhaustion and stress, causing her to abruptly suspend her activities during a weekend campaign trip to Mergui in southern Myanmar, a statement from her National League for Democracy party said yesterday.
The 66-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate is now recovering at her home in Yangon and will take a break of four or five days ahead of Sunday's elections.
The statement said Suu Kyi had been weakened by a rigorous schedule that took her all over the country to campaign for her party's candidates, who are running in 44 constituencies. Suu Kyi herself is running in a constituency south of Yangon.
A spokesman for her party said Suu Kyi is also suffering from low blood pressure, which caused her to fall ill in early March while campaigning in Mandalay in central Myanmar.
The polls are the first in which Suu Kyi's party is taking part since it won a 1990 general election, only to have the army refuse to let it take power. Her party's participation represents a qualified endorsement of the political reforms initiated by Myanmar's current government, which came to power in a 2010 election that the NLD boycotted.
A medical checkup last month found that Suu Kyi was in good health. It said exhaustion and stress had been brought on by intense hot weather in Mergui over the weekend, with Suu Kyi having to travel for an extended period in a small boat.
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