Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday celebrated her 64th birthday inside Myanmar's notorious Insein Prison here, offering food, including Indian butter rice to prison guards.
Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday celebrated her 64th birthday inside Myanmar's notorious Insein Prison here, offering food, including Indian butter rice to prison guards who look after her. Nyan Win, Suu Kyi's lawyer said he went to the prison this morning and delivered a cake, flowers and rice packets for her.
"I delivered 50 packets of Indian butter rice, three big bouquets of flowers and a birthday cake," he said. The lawyer said he was not allowed to see Suu Kyi, a Delhi University graduate, but the prison authorities did accept his deliveries. A separate birthday party for Suu Kyi was also held at the head office of her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), with about 300 supporters and members attending, Kyodo news agency reported.
During the party, 64 balloons and 64 doves were released by senior party members and others, and birthday wishes were chanted for the jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Woman members also sang Happy Birthday songs and blew out 64 candles before cutting the birthday cake. Meanwhile, supporters of Suu Kyi took to the Internet and held worldwide protests to press the military junta to free her.
Famous names including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, footballer David Beckham and US actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts all offered support on a website while the United States and EU led political calls for her release. Suu Kyi and two female companions were charged with violating her house arrest after an American intruder swam to her lakeside home in Yangon on May 3 and stayed there for two days.
Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest since 2003, now faces a maximum five-year jail term if found guilty of the charges.Her trial, which has drawn condemnation from the international community, is being held inside Insein Prison, where Suu Kyi has been incarcerated since May 14.
Suu Kyi has spent 13 of the last 19 years in detention since the junta refused to recognise her NLD's landslide victory elections in 1990. Myanmar has been ruled by the military in various forms since 1962.
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