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Thursday, 14 June, 2012

Suu Kyi speaks in Geneva on tour of Europe

The pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from Myanmar is making the first stop of her two-week European tour in Geneva. It has been 24 years since she was last in Europe. Under house arrest for more than a decade but finally freed a year-and-a-half ago, she will now be able to pick up the Nobel peace prize awarded to her in 1991. This morning she delivered a speech at the UN’s International Labour Organization. Alex Helmick talks to WRS’s Lucas Chambers, who covered the speech:

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