Myanmar's iconic and pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, today was freed from seven and a half years of house arrest. She was greeted at the gate of her compound by thousands of jubilant supporters. She stood weaving and smiling in pink long sleeved shirt, as people cheered, chanted and sang the national anthem.
She held a white-handkerchief in one hand and said, "Thank you for welcoming me like this", clutching the iron bar of her gate as she looked out at the cheering crowd. " We haven't seen each other for so long, I have so much to tell you".
She said, she would speak again on Sunday at the Headquarter of her now defunct political party, the National League For Democracy.
"We must unite!!!". She said, " If we are united, we can get what we want".
Aung San had spent 15 of the last 20 years under House-Arrest, and her release had been the leading demand of Western Nations seeking to pressure the ruling Junta on questions of Human Rights and political freedom.
Mrs. Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Though she long has had no contact with the world outside her Lake side Villa, she has remained a symbol of hope for the people of Burma and lovers of Democracy around the world.
The crowd outside her party headquarters on Friday buzzed with anticipation. A man rode a bycycle near her house with a sign hanging from the handlebars with the picture of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi and a Poem titled " Until We Achieve Success".
* Aung San Suu Kyi is one the few women leaders that I admired so much, her love for Liberty and Freedom for humankind is amazing. I hope and pray that, her dream of Free Burma will soon be a reality.~Delson
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