Suu Kyi to visit refugee camp
Aung San Suu Kyi is set to turn her attention to Burma’s long-standing refugee crisis with a visit to a sprawling camp on Thailand’s border today.
She will get her first glimpse of the hardships faced by some of the hundreds of thousands of civilians who have fled war in her homeland.
The six-day journey abroad this week is Ms Suu Kyi’s first in 24 years, and she has used it primarily to draw attention to the plight of her compatriots abroad.
The trip marks a dramatic vote of confidence in Burma’s reform-minded government, whose rule contrasts starkly with that of the former military junta, which the opposition leader and long-time political prisoner always feared would never have let her return had she left.
