Burma: Long-awaited family reunion for Suu Kyi
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is set to see one of her sons today for the first time in ten years, after Burma's military junta granted him a visa to visit her.
Nyan Win, a lawyer for Ms Suu Kyi, said yesterday that Kim Aris had been granted a visa after several weeks waiting in neighbouring Thailand.
Mr Aris, 33, lives in Britain and last saw his mother in December 2000. He has repeatedly been denied visas ever since by the ruling junta. Ms Suu Kyi was under house arrest much of that time.
Ms Suu Kyi was first arrested in 1989 when Kim was 11 and his older brother Alexander was 16.
Ms Suu Kyi married British academic Michael Aris and initially raised their two sons, Kim and Alexander, in England. But in 1988, she returned home to Burma to take care of her ailing mother as demonstrations were breaking out against military rule. She was then thrust into a leadership role.
Michael Aris died in 1999.
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