Suu Kyi to 'persevere' for dialogue with junta

Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has vowed to remain patient in seeking dialogue with military rulers following last month's controversial poll that has kept them in power.
"I think the credibility of the government does not depend on statistics. It depends on the will of the people. It depends on the genuine support of the people," she said in a recent interview with Japan's public network NHK broadcast yesterday.
"And we have to wait to find out how genuine that is."
The democracy icon has spent most of the past 20 years locked up but was freed from her latest seven-year stretch of confinement on November 13.
She was under house arrest during the November 7 election, Myanmar's first in two decades, that was widely criticised by democracy activists and Western governments as anything but free and fair.