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Myanmar President Thein Sein commended opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi’s “efforts for democracy” in a speech before the United Nations on Thursday, September 27. As a citizen, “I would like to congratulate her for the honors she has received in this country in recognition of her efforts for democracy,” Thein Sein, a former junta general, said. The remarks would have been unthinkable less than two years ago when Suu Kyi was being persecuted as leader of the opposition in Myanmar. She was kept under house arrest for 15 years under the junta’s rule and was freed in November 2010. She has been elected a member of parliament and has echoed calls for the lifting of US trade sanctions, which Washington heeded. Thein Sein also told the UN General Assembly he wants to “completely end” a long-running war with ethnic rebels in Kachin.
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