Suu Kyi says army has to give up excessive power

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OSLO (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on her first visit to Europe in nearly a quarter of a century, warned that her country's political transformation was not irreversible and the military had to give up its excessive powers. Suu Kyi, in Norway to accept her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, called for national reconciliation but skirted the issue of Myanmar's recent ethnic violence, which has threatened to derail its transformation from dictatorship. ...

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