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 | | The woman, Aung San Suu Kyi, was visiting from her home in England to tend to her sick mother when pro-democracy protests swelled throughout the country in August 1988 despite a brutal response by the military that took thousands of lives. |
 | | On Sunday, Aung San Suu Kyi will mark her 60th birthday under house arrest, where she has spent most of the intervening years, in an increasingly dilapidated house, more cut off than ever from contacts outside her weed-filled compound in Yangon, the capital. |
 | | Aung San Suu Kyi, as the daughter of the country's founding hero, U Aung San, has held a nearly mystical appeal for people desperate to regain their freedoms and their self-respect. |
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