Associated Press
guardian.co.uk , Sunday 14 August 2011
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Nobel laureate tests the limits of her freedom on first political trip into countryside since release from house arrest Aung San Suu Kyi opens a library in Bago, north of Rangoon. Photograph: Str/EPA Thousands of well-wishers lined roadsides in Burma to welcome the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she tested the limits of her freedom on Sunday by taking her first political trip into the countryside since being released from house arrest. The military-dominated government had warned that her journey could trigger riots, but it took place peacefully in two towns north of Rangoon. The last time she travelled out of the city to meet supporters, assailants ambushed her entourage. She escaped harm but was detained and placed under house arrest for seven years, from which she was released last November. On Sunday, Aung San Suu Kyi opened public libraries in Bago, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Rangoon,