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Suu Kyi celebrates 64th birthday in jail

Source: Press TV

Yangon : Myanmar | 5 months ago

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The Nobel Laureate has been under detention and house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years since the junta refused to recognize her National League for Democracy's (NLD) landslide victory in elections in 1990. The military regime is now trying her at Yangon's notorious Insein Prison over a bizarre incident...

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