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Subject: Wired News:  Suu Kyi offers monks memorial meal (Reuter)

    RANGOON, July 16 (Reuter) - Burma's recently freed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
on Sunday offered a meal to a group of 15 Buddhist monks in memory of her late father and
other national martyrs, a relative said.
     She left her lakeside Rangoon home in the morning and went to the house of some
relatives to continue a family tradition of offering the meal to the monks, the relative told
Reuters.
     The family traditionally offers monks the meal several days before Burma's Martyrs Day,
which falls on July 19.
     Aung San Suu Kyi's father, Burma's independence hero General Aung San, and other
members of his cabinet were assassinated on July 19, 1947, as they planned Burma's
independence from Britain.
     The traditional meal was held in the home that once belonged to Aung San's elder brother
Ba Win, who was also murdered on that date. Ba Win's son Sein Win is the prime minister of
the Burmese government in exile.
     Aung San Suu Kyi was released unconditionally from six years of house arrest on Monday
after being detained by the military government for "endangering the state" during
pro-democracy uprisings in 1988 that left thousands killed or imprisoned.
     She was never been charged or tried.
     Sunday's visit to her relatives' house was one of a few trips Aung San Suu Kyi has made
out of her home since her release.
     Crowds of people continue to wait outside her house in the hope of seeing her or hearing
her voice.
  REUTER