For the first time in nearly a decade, Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her birthday in freedom on Sunday.
The Nobel peace laureate, who is 66, received one gift at Rangoon's international airport: the arrival of her youngest son, Kim Aris, who lives in Britain.
Suu Kyi has celebrated 15 birthdays in detention or house arrest over the past 22 years, and this was the first in nine years that she was able to mark freely with friends, family and supporters.
On Monday she is to deliver the first of two BBC Reith lectures on freedom and democracy, in a recorded broadcast. More...
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