Suu Kyi to speak 20 years after award

Burma democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Norway yesterday to finally deliver her Nobel lecture — more than two decades after winning the peace prize for her dogged campaign to free her people.

Suu Kyi to speak  20 years after award

Suu Kyi’s visit to Oslo after years of house arrest follows sweeping political change in her homeland, where a former military junta has promised to follow a path to democracy.

But Suu Kyi’s first Europe trip in a quarter-century has been clouded by ethnic strife at home, where clashes between Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya have claimed dozens of lives and displaced thousands.

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