France's minister for human rights will urge Myanmar to immediately free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at high-level meetings next Thursday in South East Asia. Rama Yade (pictured) will represent France at the ASEM (Asia-Europe) ministerial meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam and the European Union-ASEAN meeting with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Saturday in Phnom Pen, Cambodia. The moderate-conservative diplomat has been pressing the Burmese government for some time to release the 63-year-old pro-democracy activist.
The leader of the National League for Democracy, Ms. Suu Kyi has been imprisoned for 13 of the past 19 years by Myanmar's military junta. She was re-arrested this month for allegedly breaching the terms of her house arrest following a bizarre incident when an American swam across a lake to her house and stayed two days. Ms. Suu Kyi's defenders insist the intruder wasn't invited to her home.
French Minister To Plead For Aung San Suu Kyi In Asia
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