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Aung San Suu Kyi accepts Nobel Peace Prize, 21 years later


Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has finally received her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo after spending 15 years under house arrest, and said her country’s full transformation to democracy was still far off.
Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during a Nobel lecture at Oslo City Hall on June 16, 2012 in Oslo.
“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.
Suu Kyi, 66, the Oxford University-educated daughter of General Aung San, Myanmar’s assassinated independence hero, said much remained to be resolved in her country.
“Hostilities have not ceased in the far north; to the west, communal violence resulting in arson and murder were taking place just several days before I started out the journey that has brought me here today,” said Suu Kyi, on her first visit to Europe in nearly a quarter of a century.
“There still remain (political) prisoners in Burma. It is to be feared that because the best known detainees have been released, the remainder, the unknown ones, will be forgotten,” she said, wearing a purple traditional Burmese dress and looking strong and healthy after falling ill on Thursday.

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