YANGON: UN envoy Tan Sri Razali Ismail arrived in Myanmar yesterday to try to meet detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hours after Washington said she had been the victim of a “premeditated ambush” by a mob linked to the ruling military junta.
Razali met with Foreign Affairs Minister Win Aung and was briefed on deadly May 30 clashes between supporters of the Nobel peace laureate and a junta-backed mob, a source close to the national reconciliation talks said.
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