Aung San Suu Kyi set to address Parliament

21 June 2012

Ms Suu Kyi accepted a honorary civil law doctorate from Oxford University.

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The Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the rare honour of addressing both Houses of Parliament later on Thursday.

She will deliver her speech in Westminster Hall, an honour normally only accorded to heads of state.

It is her first trip to Britain since leaving 24 years ago to lead Burma's pro-democracy movement.

Ms Suu Kyi will also meet the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall and hold talks with the prime minister.

[FT]ミャンマー改革の行方 スー・チー氏が大きな役割（社説）

2012/6/13 21:39

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　授与決定から21年かかったが、アウン・サン・スー・チー氏はオスロでノーベル平和賞の受賞講演に臨む。彼女は今、国会議員としてどこにでも自由に行ける。ミャンマーをめぐる状況がここ１年でいかに大きく変わったかが分かる。

Profile: Aung San Suu Kyi

1 April 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi stood for election for the first time in 2012

Like the South African leader Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi has become an international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.

The 66-year-old spent most of the last two decades in some form of detention because of her efforts to bring democracy to military-ruled Burma.

In 1991, a year after her National League for Democracy won an overwhelming victory in an election the junta later nullified, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The committee chairman, Francis Sejested, called her "an outstanding example of the power of the powerless".

She was sidelined for Burma's first elections in two decades on 7 November 2010 but released from house arrest six days later.

On 1 April 2012, she stood for parliament for the first time, arguing it was what her supporters wanted even if the country's reforms were "not irreversible".

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The women had led the non-violent struggle for women's political rights, said the committee

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This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to three women - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman of Yemen.

They were recognised for their "non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work".

Mrs Sirleaf is Africa's first female elected head of state, Ms Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist and Ms Karman is a leading figure in Yemen's pro-democracy movement.