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THAILAND MYANMAR PROTEST POLITICS COUP

epa08981347 A Myanmar demonstrator holds a photo of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest against the Myanmar military coup, outside the United Nations building in Bangkok, Thailand, 02 February 2021. Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi and other top political leaders have been detained after a raid in a military coup due to a tension rising between civilian government and the military disputed from the November 2020 elections results. EPA/DIEGO AZUBEL

MYANMAR FEIER AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa08494269 A large mosaic-like combo-picture of Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi made from portraits of 7,500 supporters holding wish placards on the day ahead of her 75th birthday in Yangon, Myanmar, 18 June 2020. EPA/LYNN BO BO

DEUTSCHLAND POLITIK AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Aung San Suu Kyi, Oppositionspolitikerin aus Birma (amtlich: Mynanmar) waehrend ihres Besuchs in Deutschland, Opposition, Politik, Politikerin, Portrait, Einzelportrait im Hotel Adlon, Europa, Deutschland, Berlin, 12.04.2014..*** HIGHRES AUF ANFRAGE *** SONDERKONDITIONEN *** VOE NUR NACH RUECKSPRACHE MIT LAIF ***.Engl.: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politian, opposition leader, heroine of social movement for democracy, Nobel Laureate from Burma (officially Myanmar) while her visit in Germany, portrait at Hotel Adlon, Berlin, Germany, Europe, April 12, 2014. (KEYSTONE/LAIF/Dominik Butzmann)

DEUTSCHLAND POLITIK AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Aung San Suu Kyi, Oppositionspolitikerin aus Birma (amtlich: Mynanmar) waehrend ihres Besuchs in Deutschland, Opposition, Politik, Politikerin, Portrait, Einzelportrait im Hotel Adlon, Europa, Deutschland, Berlin, 12.04.2014..*** HIGHRES AUF ANFRAGE *** SONDERKONDITIONEN *** VOE NUR NACH RUECKSPRACHE MIT LAIF ***.Engl.: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politian, opposition leader, heroine of social movement for democracy, Nobel Laureate from Burma (officially Myanmar) while her visit in Germany, portrait at Hotel Adlon, Berlin, Germany, Europe, April 12, 2014. (KEYSTONE/LAIF/Dominik Butzmann)

DEUTSCHLAND POLITIK AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Aung San Suu Kyi, Oppositionspolitikerin aus Birma (amtlich: Mynanmar) waehrend ihres Besuchs in Deutschland, Opposition, Politik, Politikerin, Portrait, Einzelportrait im Hotel Adlon, Europa, Deutschland, Berlin, 12.04.2014..*** HIGHRES AUF ANFRAGE *** SONDERKONDITIONEN *** VOE NUR NACH RUECKSPRACHE MIT LAIF ***.Engl.: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politian, opposition leader, heroine of social movement for democracy, Nobel Laureate from Burma (officially Myanmar) while her visit in Germany, portrait at Hotel Adlon, Berlin, Germany, Europe, April 12, 2014. (KEYSTONE/LAIF/Dominik Butzmann)

DEUTSCHLAND POLITIK AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Aung San Suu Kyi, Oppositionspolitikerin aus Birma (amtlich: Mynanmar) waehrend ihres Besuchs in Deutschland, Opposition, Politik, Politikerin, Portrait, Einzelportrait im Hotel Adlon, Europa, Deutschland, Berlin, 12.04.2014.Engl.: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politian, opposition leader, heroine of social movement for democracy, Nobel Laureate from Burma (officially Myanmar) while her visit in Germany, portrait at Hotel Adlon, Berlin, Germany, Europe, April 12, 2014. (KEYSTONE/LAIF/Dominik Butzmann)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Burma's dissident leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. (KEYSTONE/Camera Press/Robert Mort)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Burma's dissident leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. (KEYSTONE/Camera Press/Robert Mort)

INTERNATIONAL WILLY-BRANDT-AWARD: AWARDING OF AUNG SAN SUU KYI IN BERLIN, 2014

Berlin, 11. April 2014, Willy-Brandt-Haus, bei der Verleihung des Internationalen Willy-Brandt-Preises an die aus Myanmar stammende Politikerin und Friedensnobelpreistraegerin Aung San Suu Kyi.|Berlin, April 11. 2014, Willy-Brandt-House, awarding of the Burmese opposition politician and Nobel Peace Price winner Aung San Suu Kyi. (KEYSTONE/SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG PHOTO/Regina Schmeken)

INTERNATIONAL WILLY-BRANDT-AWARD: AWARDING OF AUNG SAN SUU KYI IN BERLIN, 2014

Berlin, 11. April 2014, Willy-Brandt-Haus, bei der Verleihung des Internationalen Willy-Brandt-Preises an die aus Myanmar stammende Politikerin und Friedensnobelpreistraegerin Aung San Suu Kyi. Bild zeigt sie waehrend ihrer Rede.|Berlin, April 11. 2014, Willy-Brandt-House, awarding of the Burmese opposition politician and Nobel Peace Price winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Picture shows her during the speech. (KEYSTONE/SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG PHOTO/Regina Schmeken)

JAPAN MYANMAR WAHLEN PROTEST

A Myanmar activist holds a portrait of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest against their home country's election, in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010. Voters in Myanmar's first election in 20 years cast their ballots Sunday amid both a barrage of criticism that the balloting was rigged in favor of the ruling military and hope that some change toward democratic reform might nonetheless follow.(AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

D 73978-01 Aung San Suu Kyi. OBLIGATORY CREDIT - CAMERA PRESS / Michael Wolf / Laif. FOR SALE IN: UK ONLY. HIGHER FEES. Pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), Aung San Suu Kyi, photographed in Burma in front of her national hero father Aung San. 00614030

CZECH REPUBLIC AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa02209686 A man writes a message on the graffiti wall decorated by a large portrait of Burmese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Su Kyi made by human right acivist in Prague, Czech Republic, on 18 Julne 2010. People around the world are launching the 65th Grand Birthday Party of the Nobel laureate of Burma to show that they all are standing together with her for free Burma EPA/FILIP SINGER

MYANMAR PEACE TALK CONFERENCE

epa05902539 Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi talks to rural youth during her peace talk conference meeting with Myanmar rural youth at the Myanmar Convention Center - 2 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 11 April 2017. EPA/HEIN HTET

ASIA. "OUT OF THE EAST."

MYANMAR (Burma). Yangon (Rangoon). Opposition leader, Aung Sang SUU KYI. (KEYSTONE/Magnum Photos/Hiroji Kubota)

GROSSBRITANNIEN BESUCH MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03274125 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi holds her honorary degree at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, Britain, 20 June 2012. Aung San Suu Kyi received an honorary degree 20 June at the place she once studied. EPA/ANDY RAIN

MYANMAR BESUCH USA AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa01920596 Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during her meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell (not seen in this picture) at a hotel in Yangon, Myanmar, 04 November 2009. Campbell - the highest ranking American official to visit military-ruled Myanmar in 14 years - met Wednesday with Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He is accompanied by US Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel on the US two-day visit to Myanmar, part of US President Barack Obama's new policy of engagement with the pariah regime. Suu Kyi, daughter of Myanmar independence hero Aung San, has been under house detention for the past six years. She was recently sentenced to another 18 months under house detention, sufficient to keep her out of the picture when the junta stages a general election next year. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

MYANMAR (Burma). Yangon (Rangoon) 1995. Portrait of Daw Aung San SUU KYI. (KEYSTONE/Magnum Photos/Steve McCurry)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Nobel laureate and Myanmar Opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi pictured with the trademark flower in her hair in her younger days in this picture. Myanmar's main opposition party will not join constitutional talks organised by the ruling junta starting Monday because the military government has refused to free its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and vice chairman Tin Oo from house arrest, party leaders announced Friday 14 May 2004. Diplomats have said the convention would have no legitimacy if the 58-year-old Nobel peace laureate remained confined and the NLD took no part in the talks. Aung San was assassinated in 1947 and is regarded as a martyr. (KEYSTONE/EPA PHOTO/NDL)

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03168516 Myanmar democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to her supporters after her own win in parliamentary by-elections and the landslide victory of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party candidates, at the gates of NLD headquarters, in Yangon, Myanmar, 02 April 2012. She called the party's landslide victory in the 01 April parliamentary by-elections, 'a triumph of the people'. The NLD won 43 of the 44 seat and it is likely it would win all 44 once the final tallies are made. EPA/BARBARA WALTON

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

FILE-Pro-Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi sits at the window of her residence during an interview in Rangoon, Myanmar in this July 12, 1996 file photo. Twelve years of defiance have won worldwide respect for Myanmar's democracy heroine. But back home under military rule, she is struggling to keep her decimated party alive. Her National League for Democracy, which marks its 12th anniversary Wednesday Sept. 26, 2000 has been weakened by resignations forced by the regime. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03164946 Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar democracy campaigner, speaks to the media, at her final media conference ahead of parliamentary by-elections in the gardens of her house in Yangon, Myanmar, 30 March 2012. A new wave of reform in Myanmar is taking place ahead of parliamentary by-elections 01 April, in which Suu Kyi will contest in the rural constituency of Kawmhu, south of Yangon, for the NLD. EPA/BARBARA WALTON

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi pauses during an interview at her Rangoon compound on Saturday, May 25, 1996. Well-wishers celebrated the 51-year-old pro-democracy leader's birthday today on June 19, 1996, as an unconfirmed report said she was facing arrest by the Burmese military government. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

MYANAMR NEW YEAR THINGGYAN FESTIVAL

epa03659188 Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi stands as she watches a performance from the fence of her residence one day before the Thingyan festival, or New Year celebrations, also known as the Water Festival, in Yangon, Myanmar, 12 April 2013. The three-day water festival is celebrated by splashing water and putting powder on each others faces as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away the sins from the old year. EPA/LYNN BO BO

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets her supporters at the gate of her residential compound in Rangoon Saturday, July 6, 1996. The weekend gatherings continue to draw thousands despite the poor weather. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

BURMA MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

This picture dated 23 May 1996 shows Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi addressing a press conference under a flag of her National League for Democracy (NLD) in Yangon. The former Nobel Peace Prize winner is in a stand-off with the junta on a road outside Yangon after defying a travel ban which restricts her to the capital. (KEYSTONE/-/AFP/EMMANUEL DUNAND)

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03164949 Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar democracy campaigner, laughs as she answers questions from media, at her final press conference ahead of parliamentary by-elections in the gardens of her house in Yangon, Myanmar, 30 March 2012. A new wave of reform in Myanmar is taking place ahead of parliamentary by-elections 01 April, in which Suu Kyi will contest in the rural constituency of Kawmhu, south of Yangon, for the NLD. EPA/BARBARA WALTON

CHINA MYANMAR

Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi listens to Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Wednesday, April 24, 2019. (Fred Dufour/Pool Photo via AP)

FRANKREICH AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, gives a press conference, with France's President Francois Hollande, after a meeting, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Tuesday, April 15, 2014. . (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

MYANMAR SUU KYI

FILE - In this June 15, 2012, file photo, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi briefs the media after a meeting with Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the Norway government guest house in Oslo. Suu Kyi formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday June 16, 2012, in the Norwegian capital, that originally thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

GROSSBRITANNIEN BESUCH MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, arrives at Oxford University in Oxford, England, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Suu Kyi, who is on her first overseas trip since 1988, has a long association with Britain, where she studied and lived for many years in Oxford with her late husband, Michael Aris, and their two sons, but she has not visited for 24 years. Many of those years were spent under house arrest in Myanmar. On Wednesday, Oxford University will present her with an honorary degree that it awarded in 1993 but that she was not free to collect. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03184335 Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi smiles as she watches a performance from the fence of her residence as she celebrates the Thingyan festival, or New Year celebrations, also known as the Water Festival, in Yangon, Myanmar, 16 April 2012. The three-day Songkran festival is celebrated with splashing water and putting powder on each others faces as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away the sins from the old year. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03167424 Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is framed by a window of a school used as a polling booth for parliamentary by-elections as she inspects voting in the constituency of Kawmhu in which she is running for a seat in parliament, in Myanmar, 01 April 2012. Millions of people in Myanmar, under military rule for decades, headed to vote in the by-election that could Suu Kyi in parliament. It is the first election the Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi, 66, has contested, as she was under house arrest during Myanmar's past two general elections in 1990 and 2010. EPA/BARBARA WALTON

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Nobel laureate and Myanmar Opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi pictured in her garden in the northern Burmese city of Mandalay, Myanmar, (Burma), in this 2002 picture. Myanmar's main opposition party will not join constitutional talks organised by the ruling junta starting Monday 17 May 2004 because the military government has refused to free its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and vice chairman Tin Oo from house arrest. Diplomats have said the convention would have no legitimacy if the 58-year-old Nobel peace laureate remained confined and the NLD took no part in the talks discrediting the forum even before it begins. (KEYSTONE/EPA/Str)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Burma's dissident leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. (KEYSTONE/Camera Press/Robert Mort)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi dressed in Chin minority costume poses on the roadside during her trip to Chin state, Myanmar in this April 2003 photo provided by Southeast Asian human rights group Altsean Burma. Suu Kyi turns 58 on Thursday has to spent her birthday locked up in an undisclosed place by a military government that defied demands by foreign government to free her. The Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi has been held incommunicado since May 30, following violent clashes in northern Myanmar where she was on a tour. The government says the violence started when her motorcade tried to plow through a group of pro-junta demonstrators. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Altsean Burma, HO)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03210863 (FILE) A file photograph showing Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arriving at the Pyithu Hluttaw, the Myanmar Lower House parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 02 May 2012. Media reports on 08 May 2012 state that Aung San Suu Kyi has been issued with a passport after a 24 year break as she plans to visit Noway in June 2012 to receive her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and then on to Britain where she previously lived with her family. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Myanmar democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi smiles as she poses in front of a large portrait of her late father, Aung San, during a photo session at Aung San Suu Kyi's Yangon home Wednesday, July 19, 1995. When modern Myanmar's founding father, Gen. Aung San, was cut down by assassins' bullets in 1947, his daughter Aung San Suu Kyi was just 2 years old. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Anat Givon)

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to deliver her speech during an election campaign rally in Thongwa village some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, ascends the stairs towards the stage to deliver her speech during an election campaign rally in Thongwa village some 50 kms from Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is silhouetted against setting sun as she arrives to deliver her speech during an election campaign rally in Thongwa village some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

NETHERLANDS MYANMAR TRIAL

epa08062117 Abubacarr Tambadou (4-L front, seated), minister of justice of The Gambia, and Aung San Suu Kyi (C, standing), Myanmar State Counselor, on the second day before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Peace Palace, The Hague, The Netherlands, 11 December 2019. Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi defended her country at the International Court of Justice against accusations of genocide filed by The Gambia, following the 2017 Myanmar military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority. EPA/KOEN VAN WEEL

MYANMAR TAG DER UNABHAENGIGKEIT

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi prays at the tomb of her late father and Myanmar's independence hero Gen. Aung San during a ceremony to mark the 72nd anniversary of his 1947 assassination, at the Martyrs' Mausoleum Friday, July 19, 2019, in Yangon, Myanmar. The country's Independence hero Gen. Aung San and his cabinet were gunned down in 1947. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

CHINA MYANMAR DIPLOMACY

epa07524919 Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) welcomes Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) prior to their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, 24 April 2019. EPA/FRED DUFOUR / POOL

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03203316 Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walks past selected military representatives at the Pyithu Hluttaw, the Myanmar Lower House parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 02 May 2012. Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in as a member of Parliament, after backing down over an earlier objection to the wording of the oath. Suu Kyi and 33 members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party who won seats in the 01 April by-election took an oath that included the contentious clause to 'safeguard the constitution' before taking their seats in the Lower House. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03168477 Myanmar democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi (C) speaks to her supporters after her own win in parliamentary by-elections and the landslide victory of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party candidates, at the gates of NLD headquarters, in Yangon, Myanmar, 02 April 2012. She called the party's landslide victory in the 01 April parliamentary by-elections, 'a triumph of the people'. The NLD won 43 of the 44 seat and it is likely it would win all 44 once the final tallies are made. EPA/BARBARA WALTON

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses a press conference at her house in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, March 30, 2012. Suu Kyi said Friday that Myanmar's weekend elections will be neither free nor fair because of widespread irregularities, but vowed to press forward with her candidacy for the sake of the country. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves towards her supporters from her car as she leaves after a brief visit to the headquarters of her National League for Democracy party in Yangon, Myanmar Monday, April 2, 2012. Suu Kyi claimed victory Monday in Myanmar's historic by-election, saying she hoped it will mark the beginning of a new era for the long-repressed country. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

MYANMAR PEOPLE AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03185349 Myanmar democracy leader and elected parliamentarian for Kawmhu Township Aung San Suu Kyi (R) greets her supporters as she leaves from the New Year celebration at Kawmhu Township, Yangon, Myanmar, 17 April 2012. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03106730 Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves to supporters in the dusty area after giving her speech at Hlegu township, Yangon, Myanmar, 15 Februrary 2012. Suu Kyi who was detained more than two decades prepares to compete for the 48 parliamentary seats in the 01 April 2012 by-election. EPA/THET HTOO

MYANMAR WAHLEN PARLAMENT AUNG SAN SUU KYI

epa03118053 Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) stands in car as she greets supporters in Myitkyina, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 23 February 2012. Suu Kyi who was detained in house arrest for more than two decades campaigns for one of the 48 seats in the 01 April 2012 by-election that is seen as a litmus test for the new government's reforms. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING

BURMA MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi sits under a photograph of her late father Aung San as she talks during an interview with foreign journalists at her Rangoon home Saturday, July 15, 1995. Her father, Gen. Aung San, a leader of Burma's independence from Britain, was assassinated July 19, 1947. (AP Photo/Anat Givon)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

An undated photograph showing Nobel laureate and Myanmar Opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi pictured in front of her father Bogyoke Aung San, known as the father of both Myanmar's independence movement. On Sunday 19 June 2005, Aung San Suu Kyi will celebrate her 60th birthday, which in a Buddhist culture marks an important milestone in one's life. Aung San Suu Kyi is still kept under strict house arrest, and the Burmese generals have fortified themselves even more against any attempts at a dialogue EPA/STR

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, meets junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe in this undated photo released Saturday, July 5, 2003, on the website of the official New Light of Myanmar newspaper. The photograph, which was published in all three official newspapers, was accompanied by a stinging commentary against Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace prize winner held by the junta since May 30. There has been no indication that the bitter rivals had met recently. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/New Light of Myanmar)

MYANMAR REGIERUNG TREFFEN AUNG SAN SUU KYI

In this Myanmar News Agency photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, newly-appointed Myanmar Liaison Minister Aung Kyi, right, meets with Aung San Suu Kyi, detained leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), at the state guest house in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007. It was the first known meeting between Suu Kyi, under house arrest for 12 of the last 18 years, and retired major general Aung Kyi, who was appointed to the post on Oct. 8 to hold talks with her. (AP Photo/Myanmar News Agency via Xinhua)

BURMA MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi stands behind her gate to greet a crowd of some 1,000 people who have come to see her July 11, 1995 after a release from house arrest. Hailed internationally for her determination and courage, the Nobel Peace laureate has kept the struggle for democracy in Myanmar alive for 12 years, most of them under house arrest. Born in Rangoon, now Yangon, on June 19, 1945, Suu Kyi is the daughter of Aung San who led Burma's nationalist struggle against British colonial rule after World War II. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Stuart Isett)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Aung San Suu Kyi talks with supporters at opposition party headquarters in May 6, 2002, following her release from house arrest in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar's military government on Saturday, April 17, 2004 reopened the headquarters of Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy party, almost a year after it was shut by the junta, a party official said. The junta shut the party headquarters and all other NLD offices on May 31 last year in a nationwide crackdown on the party following a clash between supporters of pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi and a pro-junta mob the previous night. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Dan Lovering)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI 1988

Masses of demonstrators gather August 27, 1988 to listen to Aung San Suu Kyi, speaking in Rangoon to call for democracy in Burma. She is daughter of slain national hero Aung San. (AP Photo)

MYANMAR REGIERUNG PROTEST

Myanmar soldiers stand guard as Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, left in the background, pays respects to monks at the gate of her home in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday afternoon, Sept. 22, 2007. Hundreds of demonstrating Buddhist monks and sympathizers had been allowed past barricades to walk to the house where democracy leader Suu Kyi is being detained. She greeted them from her gate in her first public appearance in more than four years. (AP Photo/THE IRRAWADDY) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Nobel laureate and Myanmar Opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) poses with Bogyoke Aung San, known as the father of both Myanmar's independence movement and Suu Kyi in Yangon, Myanmar, in this 2002 picture. Myanmar's main opposition party will not join constitutional talks organised by the ruling junta starting Monday because the military government has refused to free its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and vice chairman Tin Oo from house arrest, party leaders announced Friday 14 May 2004. Diplomats have said the convention would have no legitimacy if the 58-year-old Nobel peace laureate remained confined and the NLD took no part in the talks. Aung San was assassinated in 1947 and is regarded as a martyr. (KEYSTONE/EPA/NLD)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, front right, smiles as she arrives at party headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar in this May 7, 2002 photo. Myanmar's military government reopened the headquarters of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy party on Saturday, April 17, 2004, almost a year after shutting it and all other party offices, a party official said. The hardline government appeared to be bowing to intense international pressure to ease restrictions against democracy proponents. But critics argue that such concessions are aimed at deflecting criticism rather than granting greater freedom. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/David Longstreath)

MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi addresses a large number of Burmese supporters from above the gate of her Rangoon home Saturday, July 15, 1995. Aung San Suu Kyi was released last Monday after six years under house arrest. (AP Photo/Stuart Isett)

BURMA MYANMAR AUNG SAN SUU KYI

This picture dated 04 January 1997 shows Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi addressing a gathering of National League for Democracy (NLD) supporters at her Yangon residential compound to mark the 49th anniversary of Burmese independence. Myanmar's military authorities 02 September 2000 raided the headquarters of Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party while simultaneously announcing the opposition leader had been "escorted" home following a lengthy roadside stand-off with the junta. EPA /DAVID VAN DER VEEN

MYANMAR BESUCH UNO

In this handout photo released by United Nations Information Center (UNIC), United Nations special envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, left, talks with detained Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during their meeting at the government guesthouse in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. Suu Kyi expressed frustration to a U.N. envoy Monday over the world body's failure to persuade the country's hard-line military leaders to give up their monopoly on power, her party said. (AP Photo/United Nations Information Center, HO ) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **