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Associated PressThousands of well-wishers lined roadsides in Burma to welcome the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she tested the limits of her freedom on Sunday by taking her first political trip into the countryside since being released from house arrest.
The military-dominated government had warned that her journey could trigger riots, but it took place peacefully in two towns north of Rangoon.
The last time she travelled out of the city to meet supporters, assailants ambushed her entourage. She escaped harm but was detained and placed under house arrest for seven years, from which she was released last November.
On Sunday, Aung San Suu Kyi opened public libraries in Bago, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Rangoon, and in the nearby town of Thanatpin, where she gave a 10-minute speech calling for unity and asking people to continue to support her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD).
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Aung San Suu Kyi opens a library in Bago, north of Rangoon. Photograph: Str/EPA