Aung San Suu Kyi's House, Yangon, Myanmar
Myanmar's most famous person, and ranked as 61st most powerful woman on planet by Forbes. The house she was put under house arrest by Myanmar authorities. Her father founded Burma's military and assassinated. So that's how you get to live in a house like that...
BURMA: RANGOON: AUNG SAN SUU KYI REUNITED WITH HER FAMILY
Burmese/Eng/Nat
Recently freed Burmese Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was reunited with her family for the first time Saturday since she was released from house-arrest 12 days ago.
She was detained by the military Government in 1989.
Oxford academic, Dr. Michael Aris, and his son Kim Arundel flew into Rangoon from London Saturday to be reunited with released Burmese opposition leader Aung Suu Kyi.
The last time Aris, and 18 year-old Kim visited Aung was in December 1994.
The pair are seen here at Bangkok airport as they boarded an aircraft for a flight to Rangoon.
Despite numerous media requests for a photo opportunity of Suu Kyi together with her husband and son, the charismatic leader declined.
SOUNDBITE:
I must refuse request for interview and photo session with my family. They are merely on a private family visit and not involved in any political activities. I do not wish to expose them to any kind of publicity.
SUPER CAPTION: U Aye Win, Spokesman for Aung Suu Kyi]
Meanwhile Aung, who vows to continue her struggle in Burma, is maintaining a high political profile with members of her political group, the National League for Democracy (NLD).
On Sunday, she addressed about 500 supporters who gathered outside her house.
U Kyit Maung, Spokesman for the NLD and U Tin Oo, former Chairman of the NLD spoke to the delight of the crowd.
Both were released from detention early this year.
The leaders told supporters to be patient, cautious and on alert as they are being closely monitored.
Aung San Suu Kyi was released two weeks ago after six years of house arrest.
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Beyond Rangoon (1995) - Aung San Suu Kyi
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BURMA: RANGOON: OPPOSITION LEADER AUNG SAN SUU KYI ALLOWED VISITORS
English/Nat
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed visitors into her compound Friday for the first time since the military junta prevented her party from holding a congress several weeks ago.
Her senior aide, Kyi Maung, whose recent detention sparked an international outcry, has said his interrogators treated him well.
Kyi Maung was released from police questioning last Monday after five days in custody.
His release came just hours after the European Union voted to tighten sanctions against Burma for cracking down on pro-democracy activists.
Kyi Maung was back in his old routine this week - discussing policy with democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, while pacing through the grounds of her home.
Kyi, the deputy leader of the National League for Democracy (N-L-D), had been held under suspicion of inciting recent student protests in Rangoon after he was seen talking to two participants.
The protests were called to demonstrate anger against alleged heavy-handed policing of a fight in a restaurant.
Kyi Maung said he was not ill treated during his detention.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
They treated me nicely. That's all, it's not the Holiday Inn standard, they have a long (inaudible)... long barracks-like building and the extreme room exactly nine by eleven feet was allotted me. No bathroom attached.
SUPER CAPTION: Kyi Maung, Deputy leader of National League, Democracy
The 78-year-old politician is a popular figure in the party.
He has been sharing the microphone with Aung San Suu Kyi during her regular weekend public speeches.
Kyi served five years in prison for his pro-democracy activities before his release in 1995.
His recent arrest brought a new wave of condemnation and threats of sanctions against the military regime, especially from Western governments.
The Burmese junta has increased its crackdown against the N-L-D in recent weeks.
An attempt to hold a party congress last month led to hundreds of arrests and military roadblocks sealing off the home of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Kyi Maung was freed last Monday after the European Union voted to tighten sanctions against Burma for cracking down on pro-democracy activists.
On the same day, the barricades outside Aung's compound were removed.
From there, Kyi Maung said the party's activities would not be stopped.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
We will convene a big meeting at the first available opportunity. We are not giving it up yet.
SUPER CAPTION: Kyi Maung, Deputy leader of National League for Democracy
Burma's military government has been in power in various guises since 1962.
In 1988, troops shot dead thousands of unarmed civilians who had taken to the streets to demand democracy.
In 1990, Suu Kyi's party won a landslide general election, but the junta refused to give up power.
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Burma - Aung San Suu Kyi's house blocked by police
T/I 10:01:00
Weeks after students in Rangoon took to the streets to demonstrate for more civil rights, tanks remain in the centre of the city and university gates are still bolted.
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VS Rangoon Institute of Technology;
TS Burmese soldier on guard,
padlocked front gates of university;
LS Aung San Suu Kyi's house seen through trees;
Soldiers walking,
VS main road to Suu Kyi's house blocked by police;
VS nearby street corner where Suu Kyi followers gather in support.
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Barack Obama meets Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma
US President Barack Obama says his historic visit to Burma, also known as Myanmar, marks the next step in a new chapter between the two countries.
Speaking after a private meeting with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Mr Obama, who is the first sitting US president to visit the former pariah state, said he has seen encouraging signs of progress in the country in the past year.
Those signs, he said, included Ms Suu Kyi's release from house arrest and her election to parliament.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi reunited with son
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's opposition leader, has been reunited with her youngest son for the first time in nearly 10 years.
The pro-democracy campaigner was released earlier this month after spending much of the past 20 years under house arrest.
Al Jazeera's correspondent in Yangon, the capital, reports.
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President Obama Aung San Suu Kyi Yangon Myanmar (November 19, 2012)
President Barack Obama and Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi deliver remarks from Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma) on Monday, November 19, 2012.
Crowd lines up outside Suu Kyi home to welcome US president
(19 Nov 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Pan of crowd outside the house of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar democracy activist and lawmaker, ahead of the arrival of US President Barack Obama
2. People holding pictures of Obama and Suu Kyi
3. Close of poster which shows Suu Kyi with Obama
4. People in crowd holding small US flags
5. Policemen standing in front of crowd
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, (name not given), Crowd member:
Well of course this is a very great event and we are very happy about it.
7. Obama's motorcade coming down road and entering compound of Suu Kyi, crowd chant welcome Obama
8. Wide of crowd cheering
9. Wide of crowd
STORYLINE
Tight security in the Myanmar city of Yangon hasn't stopped well-wishers turning out to catch a glimpse of US President Barack Obama, or at least of his motorcade.
Several hundred onlookers gathered outside the home of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to wait for his arrival around midday on Monday.
Some in the crowd carried US flags and posters showing the opposition leader and the President together.
Others wore Obama T-shirts.
The security, though large-scale, was relaxed.
When the motorcade arrived the crowd took up a chant of Welcome Obama and cheered his vehicle into the compound where he was to meet with Suu Kyi, following a meeting with President Thein Sein.
Obama has said his visit is designed to acknowledge Myanmar's move towards democracy and to encourage it to go further.
It is not, he said, an endorsement of the current government.
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Aung San Suu Kyi returning to Yangon (Rangoon) airport after a tour of her country.
Myanmar's (Burma) Suu Kyi Tests Leash With a Tour. Here she is seen returning to Yangon (Rangoon) airport.
Freedom for Aung San Suu Kyi!
November 13, 2010.
The PilipinasMabuhay100 Team CELEBRATES with the PEOPLE of BURMA and the rest of the world over the release of Burmese democracy leader and 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, AUNG SAN SUU KYI.
We stand with you as you lead your great people in the struggle towards a FREE and DEMOCRATIC Burma. :-)
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August 11, 2009.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been found GUILTY of breaking the terms of her house arrest. She is now spending another eighteen months imprisoned in her dilapidated home in the middle of Rangoon.
May, 14, 2009.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been arrested and been charged with breaking so-called terms of her house arrest...she is currently imprisoned in the notorious Insein Prison in Rangoon (Yangon)...Please spread the word about her current situation...she has been accused of crimes she never did.
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About Aung San Suu Kyi:
Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of the leader of the Burmese Independence movement in the 1940's, General Aung San, the most revered man in Burma's history.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been in and out of house arrest since 1989 in Rangoon, Burma. In 1990, she and her party (The National League for Democracy) won more than 80% of the vote in the National Elections. The Burmese Junta (which is an illegitimate government) nullified the results and never transferred power to Suu Kyi.
She has been awarded numerous international awards, like the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and in 1991, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Daw Suu has been fighting for democracy In Burma since 1988, the year of the 8888 Uprising.
The junta put her under house arrest because they said that she was a disturbance to the peace of the state.
But, the true reason is that, they know that she has the power to bring democracy, justice, and peace to the country with the power of the people.
To this day, Aung San Suu Kyi, now 63 years old, is still under house arrest, still fighting for freedom, justice, peace, and the rights of the people of Burma.
Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese people must be freed from oppression, hatred and violence....
NOW.
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BURMA: OPPOSITION LEADER AUNG SAN SUU KYI DEMOCRACY SPEECH
English/Nat
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said it's now time for action in her efforts to bring democracy to Burma.
Speaking on the eve of her party's first conference in six years, Suu Kyi said the military government's crackdown on democracy activists will backfire and fuel the cause for democracy.
The Burmese government arrested over two hundred party activists this week, most of whom were to attend Sunday's meeting of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.
There are unconfirmed reports that one of the detainees has died in custody.
Monsoon rain drenched Rangoon today (Saturday), but crowds of Burmese braved the elements outside the home of Opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi.
They came to hear Suu Kyi's weekly speech at the gates of her compound - a crowd of over five thousand turned up this time. The Nobel Peace Prize winner spoke of the events of a week that's seen 256 of her supporters rounded up by the military.
The leader of the National League for Democracy was in buoyant mood today, on the eve of the convention that sparked the military junta's crackdown.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
There's no despondency. We see this as a time for action, for a lot of intelligent thinking. It's a little exhausting but we don't mind that. We can take that.
SUPERCAPTION: Aung San Suu Kyi, Leader of National League For Democracy
In a new development Saturday, a dissident group, the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, claimed one delegate had died in custody.
But the report is still unconfirmed.
The government's arrests were meant to scupper Sunday's conference which will challenge the junta's legitimacy.
Most of the delegates who've been arrested were voted into office in the N-L-D's landslide election victory of 1990.
The ruling junta rejected the result and refused to hand over power.
Suu Kyi says she's determined to go ahead with Sunday's party conference - the first time that any major opposition meeting has taken place since Suu Kyi was released last July after six years of house arrest.
Aung San Suu Kyi believes the junta's repressive tactics against party activists will only serve to strengthen support for democracy.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
The way they're going about it is so patently brutal. There's really no need to take such action to stop a conference of 200 people taking place. It's an over-reaction and it very much illustrates the heavy hand with which this regime is ruling Burma.
SUPERCAPTION: Aung San Suu Kyi, Leader of National League For Democracy
The government has not said whether it will allow tomorrow's meeting to take place, but Suu Kyi's supporters continued with preparations.
So far Rangoon remains quiet and there is no sign yet of any move
against Aung San Suu Kyi herself.
The regime has sought to portray her as a demented troublemaker, and a snake or she-cobra.
She says these attacks cannot undermine the democracy movement.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
You must not underestimate our people. I may be the figurehead of the organisation but they're in this movement because they believe in it not because of me. And they take full responsibility for their own deeds and those who are supporting the N-L-D are not supporting me - they are supporting the movement for democracy and any support I may have is because they think that I will be able to help bring about democracy.
SUPERCAPTION: Aung San Suu Kyi, Leader of National League For Democracy
This week's crackdown by the Burmese military has drawn heavy criticism from governments and human rights groups around the world.
The junta says those arrested will only be held a short time.
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Burma - Aung San Suu Kyi Interview
T/I: 11:52:20
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi spoke Saturday (22/6) about rumours she will be placed under house arrest again very soon. In an exclusive interview with WTN, she said had no idea what the ruling junta is planning to do about her political activities. The interview was held ahead of her regular weekend address to pro-democracy supporters outside her residence in Rangoon.
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Aung San Suu Kyi exits house;
Aung San Suu Kyi (asked about rumours of another house arrest),
SOT Aung San Suu Kyi (in English): That's what I heard but not for me to know.. there were no new developments that I know of..
(Q: who will make next move?)
SOT Aung San Suu Kyi: These articles in the newspapers are open to all kinds of interpretations... I think that we'll have to wait and see .;
CU Aung San Suu Kyi,
SOT: This is the season for weddings..
Aung San Suu Kyi walking off;
people in street;
girl in street wearing Suu Kyi t-shirt
traffic outside suu Kyi house
people seated in street outside Aung San Suu Kyi's house, waiting for her weekly address;
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Aung San Suu Kyi Spending Birthday in Prison
Burma's famous opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, spent her 64th birthday Friday at a high-security prison outside Rangoon. The pro-democracy leader has spent 13 of the last 19 years under house arrest by the military junta and is currently awaiting the re-opening of her trial on charges of violating her house arrest. Yet for all the government's attempts to silence Aung San Suu Kyii, her resilience has become the symbol of the movement to bring democracy to Burma. VOA's Julia Ritchey reports.
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MYANMAR: YANGON: AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S VIDEO ADDRESS
Burmese/Eng/Nat
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has paid tribute to her countrywomen she says bear the brunt of the hardship in Myanmar.
In a videotaped address smuggled out of the military state for International Women's Day, she praises the women for their strength and criticises the government for its oppressive practices.
She also appealed to the United Nations and the world's financial institutions to take action to protect the world's women and children against violence and poverty.
Aung San Suu Kyi's videotaped address was smuggled out of Myanmar this week.
In it, the pro-democracy leader says her countrywomen bear the brunt of economic and political hardship in the military state.
Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her peaceful struggle for democracy against the military regime in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
She said she increasingly sees women's rights as being just as important as democratic rights.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
At the beginning, because in Burma we are suffering so much the violation of basic human rights, I thought that it was enough to work for human rights in general. But now I realise as we work for human rights in general, we also have to work for the particular rights of woman and children.
SUPER CAPTION: Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy
The ruling generals overturned her party's resounding victory in general elections in 1990, but refused to recognise the result.
Hundreds of members of her National League for Democracy have since been jailed in Myanmar, one of the world's poorest countries.
Suu Kyi herself was under house arrest for six years before her release in 1995.
Her movements and political activities remain heavily restricted.
Suu Kyi said men had a privileged position in Myanmar culture, although it was often women that were the source of courage for men, and women who had a greater spirit of endurance.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Our political problems are such that there are now many political prisoners in Burma. When men are taken prisoners, it is the womenfolk who are left to struggle. And we have found again and again the most successful men have behind them the bravest women. It's only the courage of the women and their determination to support their men that keeps most of their men going. I am beginning to feel more and more that women are the stronger sex when it comes to spirit and when it comes to endurance.
SUPER CAPTION: Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy
She appealed to the United Nations and international financial institutions to take immediate action to help protect women and children worldwide against violence and poverty.
She also said women should be employed to design and implement programmes of assistance.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
The weak and the needy are women and children, and because of that I would like to appeal to the United Nations and the various programmes of the United Nations and the international financial institutions to make special provision for the fight against violence and poverty. To protect women and children from the effects of violence and poverty.
SUPER CAPTION: Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy
Suu Kyi lent her support to a campaign launched on Wednesday called the World's March of Women 2000 by women's groups in 139 countries.
The campaign aims to lobby governments and international organisations to overcome violence and poverty afflicting women.
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Burma - Aung San Suu Kyi Released
T/I: 10:43:20
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with members of the
opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) on Wednesday (12/7)
and Thursday (13/7). The 50-year-old Nobel Peace Prize-winner was
unexpectedly released on Monday after six years of house arrest.
In 1989 she was put under arrest for endangering the state by
speaking out against the military, which killed and imprisoned
thousands while suppressing a pro-democracy uprising in 1988.
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