Hong Kong - Nobel Peace laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Monday confirmed she plans to travel around Myanmar in the next two months to campaign for political change. The journey, which she confirmed in an internet broadcast to students in Hong Kong, would be her first outside the capital Yangon since her release from house arrest in November. Asked about media reports of her intended journey, Suu Kyi told her Hong Kong audience: 'I hope to be able to travel out of Rangoon (Yangon) in a month or two. 'I have not been given any particular assurances by the authorities, but I believe that it is the right of every citizen of Burma to have her security assured by the government. 'Where I shall be going I cannot yet say because we are trying to work out a sensible itinerary. As soon as we have decided on that that, we shall make it public.' The last time Suu Kyi ventured out into the provinces on the campaign trail in 2003, her vehicles were attacked by pro-government forces and she was arrested. Suu Kyi spoke for 90 minutes in a live discussion with an audience at the University of Hong Kong. The event, called A Centenary Dialogue with Aung San Suu Kyi, marks the first time Suu Kyi has accepted an invitation from an Asian university to speak since her release from house arrest. During the session, Suu Kyi was asked if she had any message to send to Beijing and said she would welcome any dialogue with Chinese officials. 'My message to the Chinese leaders is very simple,' she said. 'China is a great country, the Chinese people are a great people with a marvelous and long history behind them. 'You can afford to take new steps, you can afford to be daring, you can afford to allow room for all kinds of opinion.' Asked what she would say to those fighting for freedom of speech in China, she said: 'If you are trying to achieve freedom in China, you are not alone. 'There are many people all over the world who are trying to do the same thing and we are all with you.' Suu Kyi, the daughter of Myanmar independence hero Aung San, was released after being kept under house arrest for about 15 of the previous 20 years by the military junta which ruled from 1962 to 2010. The 65-year-old leads the country's National League for Democracy party, which was effectively blocked from contesting the November general election, the first in 20 years. The election, labelled a sham by Western democracies, brought to power a government led by the pro-military Union Solidarity and Development Party, headed by former general Thein Sein.  And Also Similar articles
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