Kim, Daw Suu's Son in Burma

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 .c The Associated Press  

RANGOON, Burma (AP) - The younger son of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu
Kyi has arrived in Rangoon on his first visit to see his mother in more than
1 1/2 years. 

Kim Aris, 20, arrived Sunday, foreign diplomats said Tuesday, speaking on
condition of anonymity. He last visited his mother during the Christmas
holidays in 1995, along with Suu Kyi's husband, British academic Michael
Aris. 

Suu Kyi's husband has not been allowed to visit her since that Christmas
trip. The ban is apparently in retaliation for his carrying out a statement
from his wife. Suu Kyi has declined to leave the country for fear that the
military government won't let her back in. 

Burma's state-controlled media have made frequent references to the fact that
Suu Kyi is married to a foreigner, suggesting that this makes her a puppet of
foreign powers. It also has made attacks on her older son, Alexander, for
alleged personal problems. 

The military took power in 1988 after violently suppressing pro-democracy
demonstrations. It refused to turn over power to Suu Kyi's National League
for Democracy after the party won a landslide victory in a 1990 general
election. 

Suu Kyi was detained without trial in 1989 for allegedly endangering national
security. She won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent pro-democracy
work. 

She was kept in isolation until 1992, when she was allowed visits by members
of her immediate family and a very few selected other guests. 

This week's visit by Kim is his third since his mother was released from
house arrest in July 1995. It was not known how long he would stay.