Suu Kyi watches Myanmar display its military might
Aung San Suu Kyi, along with Major General Zaw Win (L), Deputy Minister for Border Affairs, attends a ceremony marking Myanmar’s 68th Armed Forces Day at a parade ground in Naypyidaw on March 27, 2013. Suu Kyi attended Myanmar’s Armed Forces Day for the first time.
Aung San Suu Kyi has, for the first time ever, attended Myanmar's Armed Forces Day parade.
The move is deeply symbolic, bringing together the pro-democracy campaigner with the military leadership she has so fiercely criticized, and which for many years kept her and her supporters locked up.
Myanmar's armed forces will continue to play a "leading political role" as the country emerges from decades of military rule, army chief Min Aung Hlaing told the celebrations in the capital, Naypyitaw.
"We will keep on marching to strengthen the democratic path wished by the people."
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