The leader of the opposition of Myanmar was released after 15 years of house arrest

The military leadership of Myanmar (Burma) released the leader of the opposition San Su Zhi on Saturday, reports the British television channel Sky News. The decision on the release was made due to the fact that on Saturday the term of the 18-month stay of San Su Ji under house arrest was completed.

San Su Ji left the house and called on the supporters to continue to achieve the goal.

The Laureate of the Nobel Prize of the World appeared at the gates of her house in Yangon on Saturday evening and greeted people who came to congratulate her on liberation. Several thousand people came to meet San Su Ji.

“We must work all together in unison in order to achieve our goal,” said the leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy. San Su Ji called on her supporters to gather at the party headquarters on Sunday, where she intends to make a speech.

San Su Zhi is the daughter of the leader of the movement for the independence of Myanmar Aung San, who was killed in 1947. She left Myanmar in 1960, graduated from Oxford University, lived in England. In 1988, she returned to her native country.

In September 1988, San Su Ji led the opposition National League for democracy. In October 1991, she became the Laureate of the Nobel Prize of the World, but the authorities did not allow her to go abroad to get a reward.

From 1989 to 1995 and from 2000 to 2002, San Su Ji was under house arrest. In May 2003, she was again detained, after which the woman was again placed under house arrest.

Since 1990, a military junta ruled in Myanmar (previously called Burma), and the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Aun San Su Zhi has been under house arrest that defeated that year in the parliamentary elections. Having declared the need to stabilize the socio-economic situation in the country and adopt a new constitution, the military refused to recognize the results of the elections and transfer power to the elected parliament.

Su Ji was under house arrest from 1989 to 1995 and from 2000 to 2002. In May 2003, she was again arrested, later placed under house arrest.

The first parliamentary elections in Myanmar on November 7 have been the first in 20 years. Military Myans announced the victory of their party "Union Solidarity and Development Party, USDP) in elections with a result of up to 80% of the vote.

Opposition parties - National Democratic Force and the Democratic Party - recognized their defeat, although he said that the authorities used pressure on employees of the budget sphere to achieve the necessary results. The most significant opposition Party of NLD, led by Aun San Su Zhi, previously refused to participate in the elections, because she does not consider them fair.

The international community has repeatedly expressed concern about the situation around the arrest of the leader of the opposition and called on Myanmar authorities to free it. With a request for the liberation of Su Ji and other political prisoners, of which there are more than 2 thousand in the country, the General University of the UN General Pan Hi Moon turned to the Myanmar government.