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Suu Kyi gets award for battling for democracy
7 March 2005 (Bangkok Post) - The United Nations Gender and Religious department will today mark International Women's Day by presenting an award to Burmese opposition leader and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi for her tireless struggle for democracy in her homeland, according to the exiled National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB).
The award will be presented to San San, an elected member of parliament in exile of the National League for Democracy (NLD), by Swiss ambassador Hans-Peter Erismann, NCUB secretary-general Maung Maung said. Now 74 years old, San San left Burma on May 30, 2003, when the junta clashed with Mrs Suu Kyi and members of the NLD during a campaign in northern Burma. Jailed twice in Rangoon, she is now secretary of the Members of Parliament Union and a senior NCUB member. Ms Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since May 2003 despite international calls for her unconditional release.
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