Degree for Burmese leader
Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has returned to Oxford for the first time in 24 years.
More crowds awaiting Burmese leader
Crowds await Aung San Suu Kyi in Oxford
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Oxford degree for Ms Suu Kyi
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford University today.
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Aung San Suu Kyi will receive an honorary degree today from Oxford University. She has returned to the city after more than 20 years. Members of the Burmese community in Oxford celebrated her arrival yesterday.
Burmese democracy leader returns to Oxford
It's been 24 years in the making and, this evening, the Burmese democracy leader Aung Sann Suu Kyi returned to Oxford to be honoured by the university and city. Before her arrival, she gave a speech to students.
Aung San Suu Kyi in Oxford
by Reshma Rumsey
When Burma's pro-democracy leader returns to Oxford today it will be a moment, many believed, would never come.
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Aung San Suu Kyi visit
Aung San Suu Kyi visits Oxford today as part of her first visit to the UK in 24 years.
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The Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will visit Oxford later for the first time in 24 years.
The Nobel Laureate left her family in Oxford in 1988 to nurse her ill mother. It was a trip which started her non violent campaign for democracy and human rights. She refused to leave Burma even to say goodbye to her husband, the Oxford academic Michael Aris who died from cancer in 1999.
