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Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD

 

 

 

One of my first lunches in Yangon (formerly Rangoon) was at this sidewalk cafe

 

 

 

presided over by the master chef

 

 

and served by this young man, with the NLD shirt

The National League for Democracy is the party led by Aung San Suu Ky

 

 

 

The party headquarters near Shwedagon Pagoda

 

 

 

displays her prominently

 

 

alongside her father, Aung San, leader of the movement that wrought Burma's independence in 1948

 

he's known as "the father of the country"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her photos are displayed profusely at sidewalk shops in Yangon

open support for the NLD is widespread

something not tolerated several years ago

 

 

Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1991

 

 

 

 

 

but was not able to accept it until 2012

 

she spent much of the past two decades either imprisoned or under house arrest

 

 

 

One evening in mid-April, 2012, the NLD set up an information stand on Anawrahta Road, one of Yangon's main streets

I bought an NLD banner and got myself photographed

Walking the street wearing this banner, I was enthusiastically greeted with many thumbs-up and broad smiles

 

 

 

 

Photo from the Wikipedia article about The Lady 

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