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Diplomats and Burma analysts said the detention of Ms Suu Kyi - a year after she was freed from 18 months under house arrest - and the moves against her party had dashed recent hopes of a revival of dialogue to break the country's crippling political stalemate.
"The regime liked to talk about confidence-building, but now there is zero confidence and zero tolerance," said Aung Zaw, editor of Irrawaddy, an independent Burmese magazine published in Thailand.
The crackdown came just a week before a United Nations special envoy, Razali Ismail, was due back in Rangoon after a break of more than six months to try to resume his faltering efforts to persuade the regime to begin promised talks on political reform with the NLD.
Analysts said the regime appeared to have been alarmed by the more assertive recent political tactics of Ms Suu Kyi, who has been met by crowds of cheering supporters in the northern provinces over the past few weeks as she held rallies and opened new party offices.
Last month Ms Suu Kyi publicly accused the regime of insincerity in promising to restore democracy, and last week - on the 13th anniversary of the NLD's landslide election victory, which was thwarted by the junta - she demanded that the 1990 election result be honoured.
"That made the Government very, very angry. They don't want her to talk about the election and she had been very low-key on that issue since her release," Aung Zaw said.
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