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Eye specialist examines Aung San Suu Kyi

Source: Myanmar News

Yangon : Myanmar | about 1 year ago

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An eye doctor has visited Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at her home, where she has been detained for most of the past two decades, her party said on Friday. The specialist accompanied the Nobel peace laureate's general physician and his assistant on a rare visit to her lakeside...

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