India ought be standing by Aung San Suu Kyi and her democratic beliefs, show it cares to promote democracy in Burma (now Myanmar) which is being ruled by the military since1962, a letter of appeal from WLC to Sonia Gandhi said.

“We believe that India should act now. We would like to request Sonia Gandhi to use her influence in the government at the Centre to help free Daw Aung San Suu Kyi," Cheery Zahau, coordinator of WLC said.

The letter also accused the Myanmar military regime of continuing to ignore the will of the people of Myanmar and the calls of the international community who wish to see changes in Myanmar leading to democracy.

Amid calls from the international community for her release, the Myanmar regime in yet another show or arrogance and defiance announced on Friday that the house arrest of Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been extend by another year.

The junta has kept Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest since 2003 after armed thugs of the junta launched a murderous attack on Aung San Suu Kyi’s a convoy in northwestern Myanmar where around a hundred pro-democracy activists were killed.

The Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy party won a landslide victory in the 1990 general elections but the Myanmar junta refused to hand over power to the NLD. - KNG.