Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi poses for a portrait at the National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters in Rangoon on Dec. 8, 2010, in Rangoon, Burma, also known as Myanmar. On the evening of Nov. 13, 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate had been detained for 15 of the past 21 years.
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