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Suu Kyi walks out free

YANGON, Nov 13, (AFP) -Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walked free Saturday after seven years as a prisoner in her own home, calling on a sea of jubilant supporters to unite in the face of repression.

Waving and smiling, to huge cheers and clapping from the waiting crowds, the Nobel Peace Prize winner appeared outside the crumbling lakeside mansion where she had been locked up by the military rulers.

the Nobel Peace Prize winner appeared outside the crumbling lakeside mansion where she had been locked up by the military rulers, “We must work together in unison,” she told thousands of waiting people, suggesting she has no intention of giving up her long fight for democracy in what is one of the world's oldest dictatorships.

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