Aung San Suu Kyi returns to India after 40 years

 
P23 Aung San Suu Kyi
13 November 2012

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi today visited India for the first time in almost 40 years.

The pro-democracy MP, 67, was meeting Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and delivering a public lecture, two years after elections in Burma formally ended military rule and saw Ms Suu Kyi freed after 15 years in detention or under house arrest.

She was also visiting the Delhi college she attended in the Sixties, when her mother was Burmese ambassador.

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