Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s detained Nobel Prize-winning democracy advocate, held talks on Thursday with a senior member of the ruling junta, as the military regime sought to deflect both international and internal criticism of their crackdown on Buddhist monks and civilian protesters last month.
Ms Suu Kyi, who has spent 12 of the past 18 years under house arrest, was taken from her villa to a government guest house to meet Aung Gyi, who was recently appointed “minister for relations” to handle the junta’s contacts with their most famous political prisoner.
