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YANGON - A PROMINENT member of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party has left Myanmar for Singapore to be treated for cancer, a relative said on Saturday.
Mr Myint Thein, 62, is battling stomach cancer and kidney disease, said the relative, who declined to be named.
'He went to Singapore on Thursday for medical treatment,' she said but gave no further details.
Mr Myint Thein is a spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD).
He was arrested by Myanmar's military authorities in the wake of the junta's bloody crackdown on peaceful protests, led by Buddhist monks, in September 2007.
Although Mr Myint Thein did not participate in last year's mass protests, which became the biggest challenge to the iron-fisted regime in nearly two decades, the NLD said he was detained due to his outspoken remarks to foreign media.
Mr Myint Thein was released in late October.
The crackdown left at least 31 people dead and 74 missing, according to the United Nations, while Human Rights Watch said Thursday about 100 people were killed in the suppression, far higher than the 15 dead reported by the junta.
Aung San Suu Kyi, a 62-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been under house arrest for 12 of the last 18 years in Yangon.
Her opposition party won general elections in 1990, but the regime has never recognised the result. -- AFP
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