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March 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The health of the opposition leader, whose family history and long years of
detention have made her a symbol for the democratic aspirations of the
Burmese, is likely to be a source of anxiety for the tens of thousands of
supporters who have thronged to see her at almost every stage of the
campaign.
Tin Myo Win said Ms Suu Kyi had became exhausted and suffered vomiting and low
blood pressure on Saturday after the boat she was travelling in got stuck on
a sandbank for several hours during her trip in the south.
She pressed ahead with a final rally in Myeik on Sunday and was cheered by
tens of thousands as she urged supporters to vote for her National League
for Democracy party, according to a photographer from Agence France Presse
at the scene.
“I’m trying to keep in good health,” she told the crowd, apologising for
making only a brief speech before rushing to catch a flight back to Yangon.
“I have been encouraged by the people,” she said.
A statement from the NLD confirmed the decision to cancel this week’s Magway
trip.
The polls next week are the first time Ms Suu Kyi, whose Kawhmu constituency
is near Rangoon, has been able to stand for election in a country dominated
by the military for decades.
The NLD won a landslide victory in an election in 1990 while she was under
house arrest, but the ruling junta never recognised the result and she spent
much of the next two decades in detention.
The next election in 2010 swept the army’s political allies to power but was
marred by widespread complaints of cheating and by the absence of Ms Suu
Kyi, who was again under house arrest. She was released a few days after the
vote.
A new nominally civilian regime has since implemented sweeping changes,
including welcoming Suu Kyi’s party back into mainstream politics and
releasing hundreds of political prisoners.
The NLD cannot threaten the ruling party’s majority even with a strong result
in the April 1 vote.
But experts believe the regime wants Suu Kyi to win a place in parliament to
give its reform drive legitimacy and encourage the West to ease sanctions.
Burma last week said it had invited US, European and other observers for the
vote.
President Thein Sein also vowed to ensure the by-elections were “transparent”
in talks with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to a Cambodian
government spokesman.
The NLD has made several complaints about what it described as “unfair
treatment” by the authorities.
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