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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Suu Kyi collects 1990 Sakharov prize

Aung San Suu Kyi collected on Tuesday the EU democracy prize that had been awarded 23 years ago(1990) while she was under house arrest.

Freedom of thought is yet to become the birthright of every Myanmar citizen, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday, as she collected a European Union democracy prize that had been awarded 23 years ago while she was under house arrest.
The Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, named after Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, has been handed out annually by the European Parliament since 1988

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