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Monday 09 April 2012
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi meets Karen rebels
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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters after meeting with Karen National Union (KNU) representatives
Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun
By Charlotte Wilkins

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met with Karen ethnic minority rebels in her first significant foray into politics since her election to public office a week earlier. The Nobel Peace Prize described the meeting as a "significant event" that would help foster national reconciliation. RFI talked to Soe Hong of the forum for democracy in Myanmar about the Karen ethnic rebels and Myanmar's other ethnic minorities

tags : Aung San Suu Kyi - Myanmar - Peace - Yangon
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