Suu Kyi tests limits of freedom with political trip

Latest update : 2011-08-14
Burmese pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday made first political trip outside Rangoon since her release from seven years of house arrest in November. A previous trip ended abruptly when assailants ambushed her entourage.
AP - Thousands of well-wishers lined roadsides in Myanmar to welcome opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she tested the limits of her freedom Sunday by taking her first political trip into the countryside since being released from house arrest.
Portrait: Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi
Date created : 2011-08-14