Burma releases Aung San Suu Kyi

This is to follow up my my blog post on Aung San Suu Kyi. It seems she has finally been released and we hope that it remains this way, though I have the feeling that it is just a strategy on the part of the Government to gain international support and she will be back in the house arrest soon.

The military authorities in Burma have released the pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

She has appeared in front of a crowd of her supporters who rushed to her house in Rangoon when nearby barricades were removed by the security forces.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner has been detained for 15 of the past 21 years.

Earlier, Ms Suu Kyi's lawyer warned that she was highly unlikely to accept a conditional release if it excluded her from political activity.

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