AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S RELEASED

လိမ္ညာေသာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရလဒ္ထက္ တကမၻာလံုးမွ ၀မ္းေျမာက္၀မ္းသာစြာ ၾကိဳဆိုခံရသူ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏိုဘယ္လ္ဆုရွင္ ျမန္မာ့လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္လြတ္ေျမာက္လာမွဳ အေပၚ အာဇာနည္ ညီအကိုမ်ားမွ ၀မ္းသာ လွိဳက္လဲွစြာၾကိဳဆိုပါတယ္။ က်န္မာခ်မ္းသာေဘး ကင္းကြာပါေစ။

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Nov 13, 2010 Suu Kyi released
Aung San Suu Kyi's 22 years in political spotlight

YANGON - AUNG San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar opposition leader who could soon be released from house arrest, was a political newcomer when she took up the struggle for democracy in 1988. Following are the major events in the history of her role in Myanmar's politics since a military crackdown in 1988 and the formation of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party that followed.

1988:
- August: Thousands of people are believed killed after troops open fire on mass protests. Suu Kyi, daughter of independence hero Aung San, delivers a speech at Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda to a crowd of 500,000
- September: Military takes charge with the creation of the State Law and Order Restoration Council ? Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) is formed

1989:
- July: Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest

1990:
- May: Her NLD wins 392 out of 485 seats in parliamentary elections but the junta refuses to recognise the results

1991:
- October: Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize

1994:
- September/October: Talks with junta number one and three, Senior General Than Shwe and Lieutenant General Khin Nyunt

1995:
- July: Released after six years under house arrest

1996:
- May: Some 10,000 supporters of Suu Kyi march in Yangon in the biggest demonstration since 1990, which the junta declares illegal

1999:
- March: Her husband Michael Aris, a British academic, dies from cancer having not seen his wife in four years

2000:
- August: Suu Kyi defies order confining her to Yangon. Again placed under house arrest the following month after attempting to travel to Mandalay

2002:
- May: Released after 19 months under house arrest

2003:
- May: Arrested in the country's north after a violent clash between her supporters and a pro-junta group
- September: Moved to her Yangon home and placed under house arrest for a third time

2007:
- September: Suu Kyi prays with Buddhist monks allowed to walk past her home during mass protests against escalating fuel costs, in her first public appearance since 2003

2008:
- May: Her detention is extended again three days after a referendum is held to confirm a new constitution that paves the way for an election in 2010
- August/September: Refuses food and placed on intravenous drip
- October: Appeals through her lawyers against her detention

2009:
- May: Appeal against detention is rejected
- Shortly before her expected release, Suu Kyi is put on trial over a bizarre incident in which an American man swims uninvited to her lakeside home. She is sentenced to another 18 months of house arrest.
- November: Appeals detention at Supreme Court

2010:
- February: Supreme Court rejects appeal
- March: Suu Kyi says she opposes contesting the first election in 20 years because the rules are unfair. Her party announces it will boycott the vote and is disbanded
- May: Lodges last-ditch appeal with Supreme Court against detention
- November: Suu Kyi remains in detention at her lakeside mansion on election day. Her final appeal is rejected but hopes for her release remain when her current sentence is completed
- Supporters gather as officials say her release is imminent
-- AFP
Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from house arrest, a Myanmar official announced. -- PHOTO: AFP

YANGON - A MYANMAR official said on Saturday that democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been released from house arrest.

'She is released now,' said the government official, who did not want to be named.

Government authorities have entered the house to read Suu Kyi the official release order.

Myanmar police were seen removing barricades around the lake house which has been home for much over the last 20 years, triggering a rush of hundreds of people who ran towards the house, witnesses said. -- REUTERS, AFPRest of your post