Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader, has used her first speech since being released from house arrest to challenge the authorities who imprisoned her for much of the past two decades.
“Democracy is freedom of speech,” said Ms Suu Kyi, who has spent almost a quarter of her life in detention for vocally supporting democracy in a country run by one of the world’s longest-running military dictatorships.
However, in a speech outside the headquarters of her National League for Democracy in central Rangoon, the 65-year- old Nobel Peace Prize laureate tempered her defiance with realism.
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