Suu Kyi rejects warning from election commission

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi rejected the warnings of the election commission to modify her language towards the military ahead of next year’s polls. The former political prisoner has been campaigning to amend a military-drafted constitution that bars her from becoming president. The 2008 constitution blocks anyone whose spouse or children are overseas citizens from leading the country — a clause widely believed to be targeted at Suu Kyi, whose two sons are British. Last month, Myanmar’s top election body warned her against using language that “challenges the army” during her rallies. Speaking in Kathmandu, Suu Kyi said, “It is not the work of (the) elections commission to warn me or other leaders of what we should say or what we should not say.” The 68-year-old Nobel laureate was released from two decades of house arrest in 2010.

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