Until last week, any Burmese who wanted to hear Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's most prominent democracy activist, could simply attend one of her frequent public speeches. Now, it is unclear where she is. The country's military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), says that she is safe and well despite the fight that broke out at her most recent rally, but is being held at an undisclosed location "for her own protection". Burmese exiles say that pro-government thugs have injured or-according to some of the wilder rumours-killed her. A blurry video clip, said to date to three days after the rally, shows her alive and not obviously hurt; other sources claim she was cut when a brick was thrown into her car. Only one thing is clear: that the regime's half-hearted dialogue with Miss Suu Kyi over the restoration of democracy is well and truly dead.
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