The Myanmar government extended on Tuesday the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), well-informed sources said, without specifying the term period of her extension.

Aung San Suu Kyi has been put under detention and later house arrest for the third time since the Dabayin bloody incident in Sagaing division on May 30, 2003, in which clashes occurred between government supporters and NLD supporters.

Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, has spent most of the last 18 years under house arrest since July 1989, the first being for nearly six years until July 1995 on charge of endangering security of the state. The second time was from September 2000 to May 2002 for her defiance of the government's travel restriction by forcing her way to the second largest city of Mandalay.

(Xinhua News Agency May 28, 2008)