Suu Kyi receives Nobel Peace Prize 21 years late




 
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Suu Kyi receives Nobel Peace Prize 21 years late
 
June 16th, 2012  
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Suu Kyi receives Nobel Peace Prize 21 years late
OSLO (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally received her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending 15 years under house arrest, and said her country's full transformation to democracy was still far off. "What the Nobel Peace Prize did was to draw me once again into the world of other human beings outside the isolated area in which I lived, to restore a sense of reality to me," Suu Kyi said as the packed crowd, led by Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja, rose in a standing ovation at the ornate Oslo City Hall. ...




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