No Deals, Burmese Junta Told

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi sought to reassure her pro-democracy supporters and renewed her vow Monday not to cut a deal with the military junta to end her house arrest.

The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner made the promise in a statement distributed Monday in Bangkok by her husband, Michael Aris.

“There has not been and there will not be any secret deals with regard either to my release or to any other issue,” said Mrs. Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest in Rangoon since 1989.

“I adhere to the principle of accountability and consider myself at all times bound by the democratic duty … to be guided by the aspirations of those engaged in the movement to establish a truly democratic political system in Burma.”

Mrs. Suu Kyi participated in a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was crushed by the military. Hundreds of people were killed. She co-founded the National League for Democracy, which won more than 80 percent of the seats in the 1990 election but was denied power by the junta.