Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Son Visits B

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09/23/1997 13:46 EST 
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Son Visits Burma Dissident 
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.