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Suu Kyi hits the Myanmar campaign trailYangon, Myanmar (UPI) Feb 8, 2012 Pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi hit the campaign trail in Myanmar in preparation for by-elections in April. Thousands of supporters cheered her during a speech in Pathein, also called Bassein, a city of around 300,000 in southwestern Myanmar. It's an important inland port and rail head on the Irrawaddy River Delta, around 120 miles west of Yangon. More than 50,000 people, old and young, cheered the leader of the National League for Democracy as ... read more |
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