For sale: gates from which Suu Kyi addressed Burmese, and the world

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated February 1 2015 - 5:08pm, first published 4:08pm

Bangkok: When Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her non-violent struggle for democracy in Myanmar, residents of Rangoon drove past the high metal gates at her lakeside house and tooted their car horns, the only way to congratulate her.

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