Rangoon, Burma (BBN) – Military-ruled Burma freed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest on Saturday, according to reports.
On Friday, Burmese military rulers okayed the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.
Suu Kyi is the daughter of Burma’s independence leader General Aung San. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at the Oxford University. She returned to her country in 1988 and was put under house arrest in 1989 as the junta declared martial law.
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