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Exclusive photo of Aung San Suu Kyi’s new pet
By Andrew Buncombe
The Foreign Desk
Monday, 13 December 2010 at 5:32 am

Yes, you can spend hours poring over the latest batch of Wikileaks documents for supposed revelations. But if you want real scoops you’re better off sticking here.

Today I bring you an exclusive photograph of Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi holding her new puppy. The dog was purchased for the Nobel laureate by her son Kim Aris, who was recently able to visit his mother for the first time in a decade after her release last month. The thoughtful son obviously believed his mother needed some company when he left. The pooch is apparently called Tai Chi Toe, though I can’t be 100 per cent sure on that. According to one report, when Mr Aris was asked who the brown puppy was for, he replied that it was “May May’s pet,” using the Burmese word for mother or mum.

For those of you concerned that the Asia Diary has been employing evil, scruple-free paparazzi to obtain this image, let me put any worries to rest; the photograph was sent to me by Hsan Htein, whose father, Win Htein, a former aide to Aung San Suu Kyi, was himself released from prison earlier this year after spending more than 14 years behind bars.

The former aide is standing to the left of democracy leader, while his younger brother, daughter and wife are the other people in the shot. The photograph was taken outside Aung San Suu Kyi’s house in Rangoon and if you look carefully you can see Inya Lake behind. (Win Htein’s wife deserves special mention for managing alone all those years and regularly visiting her husband, even though he had been jailed far from his family. His wife had to make a 24-hour journey in each direction just to see him.)

I was happy to get the photograph from Hsan Htein, who left Burma for the US several years ago. And I was also happy to have been able to speak with his father a couple of weeks back when Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest. He was one of the few to visit her on her first evening as a free citizen. That same night he told me: “She was delighted to have been released and she was grateful for the crowds that greeted her.”
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/13/exclusive-photo-of-aung-san-suu-kyis-new-pet/