Yangon, Nov 28: Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi returned to the capital Yangon from eastern Shan state, party officials said today, ending her most sensitive trip since military rulers freed her from house arrest. Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi has been allowed to travel freely to visit members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) in central Myanmar and Mon state since her release in May.
But her 15-day visit to Shan state was much more sensitive because of allegations by rights groups that the army carried out human rights abuses in the region, including forced conscription of child soldiers and systematic rape of Shan women and girls.
NLD officials said Suu Kyi returned to the capital at around midnight yesterday.
Bureau Report