Myanmar's Suu Kyi to renovate home to stop trespassers

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Source: AFP

YANGON — Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi plans to renovate her crumbling lakeside home to keep out trespassers, her lawyer said Monday.

The Nobel peace laureate had her house arrest extended by 18 months earlier this month for violating her detention rules after a bizarre incident in which an American man swam uninvited to her Yangon residence in May.

Nyan Win, one of her lawyers and the spokesman for her National League for Democracy (NLD) party, said Suu Kyi had been in contact with an architect about making renovations.

"She worries for the security of her house and that's why she wants to repair it," he said. "It is to prevent another trespassing."

Nyan Win said the democracy icon would pay for the renovations, which are still in the planning stages but will include fixing a balcony, herself.

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