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Global campaign marks Suu Kyi’s 64th birthday |
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Myanmar’s Opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, spent her 64th birthday locked in prison on June 19 as global condemnation over her trial and demands for her freedom erupted across Twitter Facebook and other websites and at rallies worldwide. Suu Kyi, who has been arrested on a charge of receiving an American guest at her Lakeside residence where she was held under house arrest after he swam across the lake undetected, has been put on trial. She celebrated her birthday by sharing food with her prison guards. Her party’s headquarters in Yangon and her supporters released 64 sparrows and 10 doves.
Hollywood stars like Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, celebrities Madonna and David Beckham, Nobel laureates, and world leaders joined voices to call for the military government to release Suu Kyi, who has now spent 14 birthdays in detention.
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