Reunited at last: Aung San Suu Kyi greets son after 10 years
Kim Aris, 33, finally saw his mother in Burma today after waiting weeks in Thailand for the military regime to grant him a visa.
Kim lives in Britain and last saw his mother in December 2000. He has repeatedly been denied visas ever since by the ruling junta.
Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel Peace prize was first arrested in 1989 when Kim was 11 and her older son Alexander 16. She has been detained for 15 of the past 21 years.
Suu Kyi's late husband, British academic Michael Aris died of prostate cancer in 1999 at age 53, after having been denied visas to see his wife for the three years leading up to his death. Suu Kyi has never met her two grandchildren.
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