(From AFP)
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has been given extra security following a death threat on Facebook alluding to her presidential ambitions, officials said Friday.
In a post last week, a man called Ye Lwin Myint threatened to shoot anyone who tries to change a controversial clause in the constitution which bars pro-democracy champion Suu Kyi from the top office.
An NLD member said extra security measures were in place for Suu Kyi “since that man’s threat.”
A senior police official in the capital Naypyidaw confirmed the security boost, also requesting anonymity.
The threat comes at a key time in Myanmar’s drawn out power transition. Read More