Burma democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi confirms visit to Britain

Suu Kyi was invited to visit Britain when she met Prime Minister David Cameron
in Rangoon on Friday. At the time, she said the fact that she would consider
the offer, rather than reject it outright, showed “great progress”
had been achieved in Burma.

“Two years ago I would have said thank you for the invitation, but sorry,”
she added.

Suu Kyi’s long refusal to leave Burma characterised her steely determination
to defy the ruling junta, which offered to release her from house arrest to
be with her late husband, Michael Aris, who died of cancer in Britain in
1999.

Their story was played out on the big screen late last year in the film “The
Lady”, as she is affectionately known, with Malaysian action star
Michelle Yeoh playing Suu Kyi.

The daughter of assassinated independence hero Aung San visited Burma in April
1988 to take care of her dying mother, Khin Kyi, a former ambassador to
India an Nepal.

Her NLD went on to win by a landslide a 1990 election for a
constitution-drafting assembly, but the military ignored the result, leading
to a two-decade political stalemate between the junta and Suu Kyi’s
opposition.

Source: Reuters

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