NLD youths meeting Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s family doctor

DVB ( 7 November 2003 )

Three NLD youths including Ko Zaw Lay from Amarapura Township who were arrested by the authorities at Dipeyin incident and recently released from Monywa military hospital have departed for Rangoon to meet Dr. Tin Myo Win, the family doctor of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

The three were seriously wounded during the 30 May at Dipeyin incident in upper Burma. According to NLD party members in Mandalay, they could be invited by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to meet the UN special human rights envoy, Mr. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro as eyewitnesses.

Dr. Daw Yu Yu May who had been treating the three youth told DVB that one of them, Ko Tun Win was wounded with a broken arm.

Ko Zaw Lay’s right arm was also broken and wounded on the head. As the result of the destruction of his nerve, he is unable to keep his head still.