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Aung San Suu Kyi's convoy was attacked in what some of her supporters believe was an assassination attempt organized by the government.

Rapprochement with pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be going well since she was released from prison almost a year ago.

Besson said Aung San Suu Kyi was "more of a heroine than Joan of Arc" and he hoped the film would get her ongoing fight better known.

Burmese authorities told Aung San Suu Kyi she could travel to the UK but she decided not to as she feared never being allowed to return.

Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi did not respond or even smile, but onlygestured that the microphone be passed to a woman nearby.

He would have gone out of his way to grant Senator Webb a meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi.

The family was based in the UK but Aung San Suu Kyi returned home in 1988 to care for her mother.

Aung San Suu Kyi is facing five years in prison for allowing an eccentric American man to stay in her house without official permission.

Aung San Suu Kyi is charged with violating the terms of her house arrest for allowing an uninvited guest without official permission.

Among the schmaltzy watercolors was a subdued landscape with Aung San Suu Kyi's face in the corner.

But the statement made no mention of Aung San Suu Kyi and did not call for the release of political prisoners.

S. President Barack Obama was the first phone with Aung San Suu Kyi, Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma to the United States contact support.

Burmese democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi is calling on citizens in her country to work toward national reconciliation in the new year.

Hollywood celebrities are urging the United Nations to help win the freedom of Burma's detained pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Burma's military government has extended the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for at least six months.

Last week, a court rejected Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal against the extension of her widely condemned house arrest.

On Friday, Aung San Suu Kyi's trial was delayed for a week.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader, was allowed to meet the UN human-rights envoy, having already met President Thein Sein.

More than anything, the new trial and detention of Aung San Suu Kyi speaks volumes about her effectiveness as a leader.

Other times they took even greater risks, like when I was taken to see where Aung San Suu Kyi was being held under house arrest.

was made as he signed legislation awarding a congressional honour to Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's detained opposition leader.

Senator Webb was also allowed to talk with Aung San Suu Kyi for 40 minutes in Rangoon Saturday.

We desperately need the kind of moral and principled leadership that Aung San Suu Kyi would provide.

After being placed under house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi's life is very regular, daily care for her two maids.

The United States Tuesday sharply criticized the Burmese government's decision to extend the detention of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

One of the sayings for which Aung San Suu Kyi is most famous is her exhortation to "use your freedom to promote ours" .

Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma deserve nothing less than our most strenuous efforts to help them secure their freedom.

The party of Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel peace prize, did not even run.

It has released some political prisoners, opened more dialogue with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and loosened some media controls.

It was there that I first became aware of what Aung San Suu Kyi meant to her people.

Among those who initially urged against the trip, activists in the United States said, was Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.

The trial of Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has concluded, and the verdict is to be announced Friday.

He is urging the general to release political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Aung San Suu Kyi herself candidly admits that progress is not inevitable and that many challenges still remain.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained leader of the opposition in Myanmar , met a minister from the ruling junta for the first time in two years.

Supporters of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi listen to her speech at a rally in Sagaing.

To her critics, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's compromises are tarnishing her status as a near saint.

Before she left the area on Thursday, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was asked by reporters to comment on the hostile reaction she received.

Lawyers for Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday made their final statements in her defense.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar's democracy movement, met a government minister and took a brief drive outside Yangon.

The regime is notorious for repression, most famously of dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy.

Amongst Sittwe's Muslims, the otherwise universal admiration for Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the opposition, is tempered.

Before being led from the courtroom, Aung San Suu Kyi walked over to the diplomats and thanked them for attending her trial.

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party said it would participate in Myanmar's forthcoming by-elections.

Q: French President Sarkozy reportedly said that China influenced the Myanmar Government in its freeing of Madam Aung San Suu Kyi.

Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 12 of the last 18 years under detention, and is currently under house arrest in Rangoon.

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won elections in 1990, but was never allowed to govern.

To counter the uproar, President Thein Sein appointed Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi to lead an official investigation into the mine and the episode.

He also met with some of the political opposition, though not with detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The junta refused to recognize the results and has kept Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for most of the years since.

Aung San Suu Kyi said: "Let us exchange it directly to the national reconciliation and dialogue. "

It is reported that Hillary Clinton often praised Aung San Suu Kyi that she inspired.

Aung San Suu Kyi used her speech to highlight continuing issues in Burma, including political prisoners and ongoing clashes.

International pressure for the release of Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, from prison is mounting.

Burma's highest court has rejected an appeal to allow more defense witnesses in the trial of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

That deadly fighting and the renewed ban on Aung San Suu Kyi's political activities are reminiscent of Burma's former military leadership.

To date, ASEAN has expressed "deep disappointment" with Burma's military rulers for extending Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest.

But more than 2, 000 are believed still to be detained, including Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the opposition.

A European Union delegation was expected Tuesday in Rangoon for talks with Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

No Burmese embassy officials met the protesters, who called for opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to take up their cause.

The European Union called for the Burmese government to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Two of Aung San Suu Kyi's assistants and the American man, John Yettaw, are on trial facing similar charges.

Like many travelers, I was deterred by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's calls for a tourism boycott.

The offensive also appears timed to divert attention from the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained opposition leader.

"Personally, I am for re-registration, " Aung San Suu Kyi said in her speech to the delegates.

The decision came after a conversation Thursday evening on Air Force One between Mr. Obama and Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

The Associated Press quoted Aung San Suu Kyi saying fear paralyzes people, rendering them dumb and passive.

Myanmar's state media issued its first criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi since her release from house arrest last November.

At another location, on campus at New York's Queen College, Aung San Suu Kyi tailored her speech to students.

Burma has defended its prosecution of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at an Asian security summit in Singapore.

Twenty-one years after being awarded the Nobel peace prize, Burma'sAung San Suu Kyi has finally accepted her prize.

Perhaps the most striking picture in the collection shows Aung San Suu Kyi walking down a snowy track in the mountains of Bhutan.

The junta's order reduced the sentences of two women who lived with Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months' house arrest each.

Nan Tin is also a refugee, forced into exile after the 1988 student uprising that led to the rise of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi freed in Myanmar is undoubtedly a "major incident. "

Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was initially sentenced to three years' detention.

His intrusion has angered many Burmese activists for jeopardizing Aung San Suu Kyi's situation.

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

A Burmese news magazine has published an interview with the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Aung San Suu Kyi allowed an uninvited American man who swam to the house to stay two nights without official permission.

A military court in Burma this month sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate, to an additional 18 months of house arrest.

In Burma, a court has rejected an appeal for the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won Burma's last elections in 1990, but the military refused to honor the results.

Like many leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi has had to make great personal sacrifices.

As Aung San Suu Kyi surely appreciates, American policy is never wholly altruistic.

Aung San Suu Kyi is being held in a lodge inside the Insein Prison in Rangoon.

Aung San Suu Kyi is very quiet, not as frequent as before, video and author. Night time, Yun Deng see her family lit only dim light.

The unprecedented access to Aung San Suu Kyi comes just days after her house arrest was extended to another 18 months.

kasaganahan: We must sustain the public outcry and outrage over the junta's recent verdict of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for 14 of the past 20 years, was driven to a government guesthouse to meet the diplomats.

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, the NLD, won national elections in 1990 but was barred from taking power.

The pressure has yet to result in reforms in the isolated state or brought Aung San Suu Kyi's freedom.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the totemic opposition leader, was released in November.

According to him, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi also needs to promote participation of the ethnic nationalities to build a genuine union.

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won Burma's last elections in 1990 but the military never allowed them to take power.

Aung San Suu Kyi's struggle to bring democracy to Burma earned her the Nobel Peace Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

propelahead: I consider Aung San Suu Kyi's conviction by the Burmese military junta a load of crap.

It then released the opposition leader and Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi.

The vote is the first since a 1990 landslide win by democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's party that was never recognised by the junta.

August 19, with Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, President Wu Dengsheng capital Naypyidaw Myanmar met.

US officials suggest Clinton will go to Burma with eyes wide open and that Aung San Suu Kyi gave the green light for the visit.

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi acknowledged what she called "defects" in the party.

Aung San Suu Kyi performed an extraordinary act of bravery during Mr. Gambari's most recent trip.

Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will refuse to vote in the first general election in 20 years.

warlockp: the military junta in Myanmar has nothing to do but harrass Aung San Suu Kyi.

They also let him meet Aung San Suu Kyi, something even UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon couldn't do.

I pledge that I will not rest until Aung San Suu Kyi, and all the people of Burma, are free.

We all know the Burmese government has kept Aung San Suu Kyi in prison or house arrest for almost all of the last 18 years.

People gather outside the headquarters of Aung San Suu Kyi's political party in Rangoon.

greeting Aung San Suu Kyi with chants of "be healthy. "

Aung San Suu Kyi's late husband, Michael Aris, was British, and their two children have lived in the west for most of their lives.

Aung San Suu Kyi had lived under house arrest for 15 of the last 21 years until her release on Saturday November 13, 2010.

Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 13 of the past 19 years under house detention. Her trial on the latest charges begins on Monday.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters have time and again offered to dialogue with the regime.

Aung San Suu Kyi's defense team had requested four witnesses but was only allowed two, while the prosecution was allowed 14.

They argued against Aung San Suu Kyi being charged under laws of the 1974 constitution because it was abolished in 1988.

The following year Aung San Suu Kyi said she would use the $1. 3m prizemoney to establish a health and education trust for Burmese people.

Michelle Yeoh, the actor playing the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a forthcoming film, has been refused entry to Burma.

In Aung San Suu Kyi, he could not have a more reasonable opponent.

People in Burma are really angry, and they really want to show their desire for release of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Many of its leaders, including Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, are anyway barred from contesting the poll.

People in Burma are really angry and they want to show their desire for release of Aung San Suu Kyi.

The NLD boycotted elections last year because of a law that prevented Aung San Suu Kyi from competing.

Two women who live in the house with Aung San Suu Kyi also were convicted and sentenced to three years, which was reduced to 18 months.

I think of my sister Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi every day.

Pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Burmese Labor and Social Welfare Minister Aung Kyi in Rangoon (Photo: AP)

China confirms its meeting with Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi

Burma Orders Aung San Suu Kyi's Party to Halt Political Activity

A recent film about the life and legacy of Aung San Suu Kyi, starring the Hong Kong super star, Michelle Yeoh