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Reuters-Suu Kyi's youngest son visi



Subject: Reuters-Suu Kyi's youngest son visits her in Myanmar 

Suu Kyi's youngest son visits her in Myanmar
05:44 a.m. Apr 16, 1999 Eastern
YANGON, April 16 (Reuters) - The youngest son of Myanmar opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi and the late British academic Michael Aris arrived in
Myanmar on Friday for a visit, the government said in a statement.

The short statement said Suu Kyi welcomed her son, Kim, at Yangon airport at
a time when Myanmar and many Southeast Asian countries celebrated the new
year.

Aris died on his 53rd birthday of prostate cancer late last month. He last
visited Myanmar in December 1995.

Aris applied for a visa to visit Suu Kyi in Myanmar shortly before his
death, but the military government did not grant it.

The government instead encouraged Suu Kyi to go to England to see Aris. She
refused, fearing she would not be allowed back into Myanmar after the visit.