Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Oslo to accept Nobel award

[eppur_se_muova]

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.



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[Uncle Joe]

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

Thanks for the thread, eppur_se_muova.

[Nye Bevan]

2. A very deserving winner (nt)

[dipsydoodle]

3. K & R

[truedelphi]

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.

[NBachers]

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