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Doctor: Suu Kyi surgery successful
(CNN) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi underwent a successful operation Friday for gynecological problems at a hospital in Yangon, her doctor said. Dr Tin Myo Win said the pro-democracy leader and Nobel laureate was in excellent health after the procedure, which lasted over three hours. She will issue a statement Saturday, he told a news conference in the Myanmar capital. Earlier reports said the operation had taken place Thursday. Aung San Suu Kyi, whose pro-democracy efforts earned her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, has been in detention for more than three months, since a clash between her supporters and a pro-government group. Myanmar's military government has said she is being held in "protective custody" following threats to her life -- a claim that has been rejected by supporters and human rights groups as a sham. The U.S. State Department recently said Suu Kyi was on a hunger strike to protest her detention and warned the Myanmar authorities that they hold "full responsibility for her health." The May 30 incident, it said, was a "premeditated attack on her convoy" organized by government supporters. The hunger strike report was later retracted representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited her and said that she was eating. Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the 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 onto power. A Red Cross official who met with her in July said she was in "good health" and being held in "fair and decent conditions" although he gave no details as to her location. Some reports have said she is being held in a special compound inside Yangon's notorious Insein Jail, a facility which has been condemned by rights groups and past inmates as inhumane. There are no indications by the Myanmar authorities that her release is imminent. -- Bangkok Bureau Chief Tom Mintier contributed to this report
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