YANGON - MYANMAR democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will meet former colleagues who rebelled against her election boycott and formed a new party to fight the controversial poll, the breakaway group said on Thursday.
The Dec 30 meeting will be the first held between Suu Kyi and members of the National Democratic Force (NDF) since her release from house arrest days after the November vote, NDF leader Khin Maung Swe told AFP.
'We will explain to her that we formed a party for national reconciliation, as confrontation is not the way to achieve democracy,' he said.
The NDF was formed by senior members of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), which was disbanded for boycotting the poll.
The breakaway group won 16 seats in the election after fielding 161 candidates but has complained of widespread fraud by the junta-backed party, which has claimed an overwhelming victory.
'I want to meet her as soon as possible. I haven't seen her for about two decades already. She was in detention when I was freed from my prison sentence,' Khin Maung Swe said. -- AFP
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