"Burma's military junta yesterday extended the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi , the opposition leader, a move likely to dismay Western nations who promised millions of dollars in aid after Cyclone Nargis.

Officials drove to the Nobel laureate's lakeside home in Rangoon to read out a six-month extension order , said a government official, who asked not to be named. However, a diplomat based in the city said it was for a year.

Ms. Suu Kyi, 62, whose National League for Democracy (NLD) party won a 1990 election landslide only to be denied power by the army, has now spent nearly 13 of the past 18 years under some form of arrest."

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