Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Leaves Myanmar - East Idaho News
World

Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Leaves Myanmar

  Published at

145508746?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1338557351751PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/AFP/Getty Images(BANGKOK) — Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has left her country for the first time in more than two decades.

The opposition leader and former political prisoner addressed the World Economic Forum on Friday. She was met with a standing ovation and adoration by crowds of supporters in the streets, many of whom are migrant workers from her own country who fled to Thailand to find work.

And jobs are what Suu Kyi says her country needs the most.

After the military government held free elections in 2010, and Suu Kyi won her own seat in parliament in April, the U.S. and E.U. eased sanctions.  Suu Kyi is urging what she called “healthy skepticism,” saying corruption and inequality must be addressed before foreign investment can be most effective.

Suu Kyi plans more travel. She will go to Europe this summer to finally accept, in person, the Nobel Prize she won in 1991.  

Copyright 2012 ABC News Radio

SUBMIT A CORRECTION