Reports: Suu Kyi 'in hospital'
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Aung San Suu Kyi was detained in May after a clash between her supporters and a pro-government group.
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YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in hospital after undergoing surgery, reports say.
According to wire services quoting unnamed hospital sources, the pro-democracy leader was taken into hospital in the capital Yangon on Wednesday.
A doctor at the Asia Royal Cardiac and Medical Center quoted by the Associated Press said she underwent surgery Thursday for an unspecified gynecological condition.
The operation was successful, the doctor was quoted as saying.
Myanmar's military government has so far given no comment on the reports, neither confirming nor denying them.
Aung San Suu Kyi has not been seen in public since May when she was taken into what the government called protective custody following a clash between her supporters and a pro-government gang in the north of the country.
Last month the U.S. State Department said it had received reports she had begun a hunger strike in protest at her detention.
That was subsequently disproved by Red Cross officials who visited her at an undisclosed location.
While expressing relief the hunger strike reports were untrue, U.S. officials nonetheless insisted she was being mistreated and called on the Myanmar government to release her immediately.
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won a sweeping victory in a general election in 1990, but Myanmar's military rulers refused to recognize the vote and held on to power.
