Aung San Suu Kyi and son Kim reunited after 10 years (BBC)

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The younger son of Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met his mother for the first time in a decade.

Aung San Suu Kyi greeted Kim Aris at Rangoon airport as he arrived.

Mr Aris had travelled to Thailand before his mother was freed on 13 November and waited to be granted a visa to Burma.

Aung San Suu Kyi has been kept in detention for much of the past 21 years by the ruling generals.

The 65-year-old was seen smiling broadly at Rangoon airport and told reporters that she was very happy.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11817685

[DavidDvorkin]

1. Heart-breaking paragraph from the story:

Aung San Suu Kyi's husband, British academic Michael Aris, died in 1999. In the final stages of his battle with cancer, the military rulers refused him a visa to see his wife.