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Suu Kyi sworn in to Myanmar’s Parliament

Clinton praises step to democracy

By Aye Aye Win and Todd Pitman

 |  Associated Press  

  May 03, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in as a lawmaker Wednesday, capping a tenacious, decades-long journey from political prisoner to parliamentarian that will enable Myanmar’s main opposition party to take its struggle for democratic rule inside the country’s army-backed government for the first time.

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