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| Aung Saan Suu Kyi Travels To Bagan |
July 04, 2011
BURMA NEWS – 66 year-old Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi travels outside Rangoon with her son Kim Aris for the first time since her independence from house arrest last year. She is planning to make her travel to Bagan, an ancient temple city just for a holiday.
She was released last year without any conditions after seven years of house arrest and now free to travel anywhere in the country and outside.
However, the government has warned Mrs. Kyi to avoid any public gathering and organizing meetings.
Aung San Suu Kyi also plans to visit her ancestral home of her illustrious father Aung San, who served as a general and leader during Burmese independence.
After years in the house and plenty of political tug of war between her and the government, both she and her son have expressed a little break from clamor and spend a neat holiday.
Last year during a brief tour outside Rangoon witnessed a near ambushed of her convoy, so officials have warned her not to organize any public meeting to avoid any chaos that can jeopardize her life.
"It's nerve-racking. We are concerned for her safety," said Soe Aung, with the Bangkok-based Forum for Democracy in Burma.
Last week, the military backed government of Burma warned Mrs. Kyi and party to stop all political activities and avoid any public meetings. There has been fear among people that if Aung San Suu Kyi would travel outside town, there might chances of riots. Even her colleagues say, he figure is so huge in Burma, it is not possible for her to play an ordinary woman traveling for leisure.
She has herself kept her travel to Bagan a low key affair and only brief talk with reporters and a few plain clothes security personnel.
The National League for Democracy, the party Mrs. Kyi is headed said that they would inform government of her movements.
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