‘Elections’ are taking place in Myanmar/Burma today and after the inevitable results are known the Military Junta has said that after 15 of the last 20 years as a prisoner under house arrest Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy who won a landslide victory back in 1990 will be freed on the 13th November.
To coincide with today’s ‘elections’ there is an excellent article in the Independent on Sunday which starts ‘She is by some stretch the most abused political heroine alive today. She has been confined to her crumbling family home in Rangoon for more than 15 of the past 20 years. Her two sons, Alex and Kim, have for many years been barred from visiting her – Kim, now 33, is in Bangkok trying to get a visa so he can see his mother for the first time in 10 years. The last wish of her gravely ill husband, Michael Aris – to die in her arms – was brutally snubbed.
But in one week's time all that could be in the past and Aung San Suu Kyi could walk through the rusty iron gates of 54 University Avenue, Rangoon, a free woman again.
Or will she?’
The rest of the article is HEREAny source
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