YANGON, Myanmar, June 6 (UPI) -- A top U.N. official Friday met with members of the Myanmar junta to press for the release of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Razali Ismail, the U.N. special envoy for Myanmar who left for Yangon from Malaysia, said he would "at the least" see Suu Kyi, who has been detained at an undisclosed location.
"There's a strong bid to get her to be released immediately," Ismail told Bernama, the official Malaysian news agency.
The Nobel peace-prize winner was taken last week into what Myanmar's ruling junta calls "protective custody" following clashes between members of her National League for Democracy and pro-government protestors in the country's north, where she was touring.
The crisis in the former Burma began in 1990 when the NLD won elections, but the military, which has ruled since a 1962 coup, refused to recognize the results. Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest, but was freed in 2002.
