Tutu hopes for 'free' Myanmar in Suu Kyi meeting
- Published: 26 Feb 2013 at 18.43
- Online news: Asia
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Tuesday he hoped to see a "truly free" Myanmar as he met fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit to the former junta-ruled nation.
South Africa's Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu takes part in a meeting seeking to end child marriages in sub-Saharan Africa on November 6, 2012 in Johannesburg. Tutu said Tuesday he hoped to see a "truly free" Myanmar as he met fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit to the former junta-ruled nation.
The anti-apartheid campaigner said he was "thrilled" to meet Suu Kyi for private talks at the lakeside mansion in Rangoon where the Myanmar activist was locked up for years during her more than two-decade struggle for democracy.
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