Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is to make her first overtly political trip outside her home city since she was freed from house arrest, her spokesman said Sunday, defying authorities' warnings.
Suu Kyi will visit the Bago region, about 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of Yangon, on August 14 to attend a library opening and meet members of a youth forum, Nyan Win of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party told AFP.
He described the visit as "political" but only a day-trip out of Yangon. "She will leave at 6:00am and return in the evening," he said. "After this trip she will try to make another trip," outside Yangon, he added. In June Myanmar's regime told Suu Kyi, who was released from seven years of house arrest in November, to halt all political activities and warned that a political tour could spark chaos and riots. In a subsequent tentative test of her freedom, Suu Kyi visited an ancient temple city in central Myanmar with her son for a few days in July, but the trip was describe as private, with politics not officially on the agenda.
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