(By Aung Hla Tun, Reuters: September 28, 2003)

Yangon - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was recuperating from major surgery under house arrest Sunday as the military government maintained her four-month isolation from friends and supporters.

Friends, neighbors and members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) said they knew of no visitors to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's lakeside home in Yangon since she left hospital Friday night.

Myanmar's generals, who have ruled the country since 1962 and are now promising a renewed push toward democracy, gave no hint of when she might be free to meet whoever she wants.

They have said only that she would continue to rest at home and the government would ensure she got good medical care, but Suu Kyi's doctor said no one would be allowed to visit her without the generals' permission.

One person almost certain to be allowed to see Suu Kyi is U.N. envoy Razali Ismail, a Malaysian diplomat due to arrive in Yangon Tuesday on his 11th visit in a so far vain effort to revive reconciliation talks between the NLD and the military.

But there was no word on who else might be allowed to see Suu Kyi, despite her doctor saying she was recovering well from what the government called a gynecological operation.

Saturday, U.S. and European diplomats were turned away from her house, which the military put under tight security, setting up road blocks and checking cars.

"She is recovering from her illness and not in a position to receive anyone at the moment," a security official told Reuters at the time.