Tens of thousands in Myanmar turn out for Aung San Suu Kyi's rally
AP | Nov 1, 2015, 10.39 PM IST
YANGON: Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi addressed a huge rally on the outskirts of Myanmar's biggest city today, offering a message of reconciliation with political opponents if her party sweeps the upcoming general election.
Suu Kyi also called for calm and stability as the campaign period nears its end ahead of the November 8 election.
Tens of thousands of ecstatic National League for Democracy supporters swarmed onto a large playing field, waiting for hours in the blazing sunshine for Suu Kyi to make her entrance.
She had hoped to hold the rally in the center of Yangon, near the revered Shwedagon Pagoda, reviving memories of her first-ever political speech in 1988, but city authorities refused her request.
The 1988 speech put her on a collision course with the then-military junta and marked the beginning of Suu Kyi's long and often difficult political odyssey.
Just days after an NLD member was wounded in a stabbing at another rally, Suu Kyi asked the crowds to maintain stability right up to the end of campaigning. Without naming names, she said that "there are some who are thinking to use bad ways to try to win."
Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest under the former military dictatorship. She was finally released five years ago.
The junta stepped back from power in 2011 with the election of President Thein Sein, and the country has moved toward democratization, though the military still maintains a powerful position.
Though her party is expected to do well in the election, Suu Kyi herself is constitutionally barred from the presidency because her late husband was British and her two sons hold foreign passports.
Structure of the Lead：
WHO- Aung San Suu Kyi
WHEN- today
WHAT- addressed a huge raly
WHY- offer a message of reconciliation
WHERE- on the outskirts of Myanmar's biggest city
HOW- not given
Keywords：
- raly：大集會
- reconciliation：和解
- stability：穩定、安定
- campaign：競選活動
- revive：回想起、復興
- collision：衝突
- odyssey：長途漂泊、艱苦跋涉
- dictatorship：獨裁統治
- democratization：民主化
- constitutionally：憲法上地
Aung San Suu Kyi let us know that the origin of the country in a tyrannical for the people, for the country, is need how much courage.However we live in democratic country is hard to imagine. So we should cherish the democracy and freedom we have.
回覆刪除I think Aung San Suu Kyi is a good leader and a courage woman. The government spread rumors about the assassination of her, but she is not affected by the threat, but says I can’t happen to the motherland Of all the blind, he really is a very people of people, let this country become very democratic.
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