Suu Kyi sets out on trip to Europe

When Aung San Suu Kyi last saw Europe, it was still divided into the democratic West and communist East. Her homeland of Burma was still under oppressive military rule.

The long-time democracy activist set out today on her first European trip since 1988 to make a long-awaited acceptance speech for the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and at a time when Burma is making tenuous democratic progress.