Aung San Suu Kyi: family reunion could be ‘tinged with sadness’

“Not just for me, for others as well and perhaps more for others than for
me,” she added.

She is expected to be reunited with her two sons, Alexander, 39, who lives in
the United States and her younger son Kim, 35 who lives in Britain at a
party to mark her 67th birthday in Oxford on Tuesday. There has been
speculation over how the separation affected her sons – Alexander has not
visited his mother since her release from house arrest in 2010, while Kim
has visited her in Burma on several occasions.”I hope [the visit] will
not be tinged with sadness,” she told the BBC.

Friends of the family have said it had been especially difficult for her sons
to know she was alive but not be able to see her.

The Nobel laureate feels the sacrifices she and her colleagues made for
democracy are now finally showing results in former military leader
President Thein Sein’s unexpected democratic reforms. Since he met Aung San
Suu Kyi last August, he has released hundreds of political prisoners, lifted
curbs on press freedoms, granted new trade union rights and held a series of
free by-elections in which the National League for Democracy won a landslide
victory.

In interviews broadcast yesterday however she warned against ‘reckless
optimism’ and urged ‘healthy scepticism’ about Burma’s transition to
democracy. She said she would welcome British and other international
investment in Burma as long as any deals were transparent and benefited the
people rather than just the “already privileged few.”

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