Fri Jun 15, 2012, 01:39 PM

Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Oslo to accept Nobel award

Source: BBC

More than 20 years after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Norway's capital Oslo, ahead of a ceremony to accept the honour.

Ms Aung San Suu Kyi is on her first visit to Europe since 1988. She arrived in Switzerland late on Wednesday night.

On Thursday she had to cancel a dinner with Swiss officials after falling ill at a news conference in Bern.

She is due to deliver a lecture as she is awarded the 1991 prize on Saturday.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18454243

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5 replies	Author	Time	Post
Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Oslo to accept Nobel award (Original post)	eppur_se_muova	Jun 2012	OP
Congratulations to Aung San Suu Kyi and good for her.	Uncle Joe	Jun 2012	#1
A very deserving winner (nt)	Nye Bevan	Jun 2012	#2
K & R	dipsydoodle	Jun 2012	#3
Thank you, people of Burma, for your support of this	truedelphi	Jun 2012	#4
This is the best news I've seen in a long time	NBachers	Jun 2012	#5

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Fri Jun 15, 2012, 02:53 PM

Uncle Joe (24,997 posts)

1. Congratulations to Aung San Suu Kyi and good for her.

Thanks for the thread, eppur_se_muova.

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Fri Jun 15, 2012, 03:41 PM

Nye Bevan (10,766 posts)

2. A very deserving winner (nt)

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Fri Jun 15, 2012, 04:15 PM

dipsydoodle (32,567 posts)

3. K & R

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Fri Jun 15, 2012, 05:28 PM

truedelphi (25,918 posts)

4. Thank you, people of Burma, for your support of this

Heroic human being. In the decades you have struggled for a return to democracy, your friends in the USA now attempt to do the same.

The issue of being "slaves" to an overlord class are no longer issues faced in third world nations, but in all developing nations.

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Fri Jun 15, 2012, 08:59 PM

NBachers (3,685 posts)

5. This is the best news I've seen in a long time

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