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6/17/12 9:41 AM

Burma
Suu Kyi says Nobel award meant Burma was not forgotten


  Burma - Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 had made her feel "real again" and reassured her that Burma's plight had not been forgotten.

 

  Speaking in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, she said Western support had contributed to changes in Burma.

 

  Ms Aung San Suu Kyi spent much of the past 24 years under house arrest in Burma. She was freed in late 2010.

 

  She did not travel to collect the prize fearing she would not be allowed back.

 

  Her visit to Oslo is part of a tour of Europe, her first since 1988, which she began in Geneva, at the UN's International Labour Organisation.

 

  On Saturday, Suu Kyi will meet members of the Burmese community who are exiled and now live in Norway.






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