CONCERN FOR AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S HEALTH!

US worried over Suu Kyi's health.

Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since May 2003. The US has expressed deep concern about reports that Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been taken to hospital. A state department spokesman said he could not confirm the reports but urged Burma's military rulers to assure she had any necessary medical assistance.

Ms Suu Kyi has been held since May 2003, and has spent 10 of the last 16 years under house arrest. Burma recently said she would be held for another year under house arrest.

"We have seen those reports... We are, of course, very concerned," state department spokesman Sean McCormack said in Washington. "We would call upon the Burmese government to provide Aung San Suu Kyi any and all medical assistance that she might need and to do so expeditiously and to ensure her safety during any treatment," he said.

Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won an overwhelming election victory in 1990. But the victory was never recognised by the junta, which has ruled the country - which it calls Myanmar - since a coup in 1962.

Ms Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, while still under house arrest.

BBC NEWS REPORT.