Yangon, June 03: The measures taken against Myanmar's democratic opposition in recent days are temporary and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi is safe and well, the military regime told diplomats in a briefing today. Sources close to the junta say Aung San Suu Kyi is being held at a government "Guest House" in Yangon since being arrested in northern Myanmar after clashes between her supporters and a pro-junta group Friday left four dead. Myanmar's Thailand-based government-in-exile said it had learned that Aung San Suu Kyi suffered a serious head injury in the melee and that up to 70 people had been killed, but deputy minister Khin Maung Win rejected the report.

"They said she's perfectly fine and that all the reports about her being injured are false," a diplomat who attended the ministry briefing told a news agency.


"But there's no way we could just accept that she's perfectly fine because we just don't know - nobody is getting to her."


As part of the crackdown rolled out over the weekend, the eight members of the NLD's leadership committee have also been taken into detention and the party's offices have been closed nationwide.


Universities that were supposed to open for the beginning of a new semester yesterday have been slammed shut.

"The government says the offices were closed down temporarily because if they were open they may give rise to further clashes, which they don't want," the diplomat said.

"They emphasised these measures are temporary in nature but when asked what temporary means we got no response." Bureau Report