Myanmar democracy icon Suu Kyi released
11/14/2010YANGON — Myanmar’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walked free yesterday from the lakeside prison that has been her home for most of the past two decades, to the delight of huge crowds of waiting supporters.
Waving and smiling, the petite but indomitable Nobel Peace Prize winner appeared outside the crumbling mansion where she had been locked up by the military junta for 15 of the past 21 years.
Loud cheers and clapping erupted from the thousands of people who had gathered outside her house under the tropical sun for a glimpse of the 65-year-old dissident, known to her supporters simply as “The Lady.”
Someone threw her a flower which she put in her hair. Earlier people had surged foward toward her home as police removed barricades blocking the way.
Although she has been sidelined and silenced by the junta —occasionally released briefly only to be put back in confinement — for many in the impoverished nation she still embodies hope of a better future..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101114hed3.html
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