Police in Myanmar have assigned personnel to protect Ms Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time, after the National League for Democracy (NLD) leader received a death threat on Facebook.
A police chief told BBC Burmese that a special unit had been assigned to protect Ms Suu Kyi after the threat was issued over a possible constitutional change enabling her to become President in the wake of the NLD sweeping to power in the country in a landmark election last November.
The man who made the death threat against Ms Suu Kyi in a Facebook post, Mr Ye Lwin Myint, has since apologised. But the threat is being taken seriously, the police chief told the BBC: "I told the local police office straightaway to take care of her security when I saw the post. We cannot afford anything to happen to a person of her stature." (Courtesy of The Straits Times)
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