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Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets migrant workers in Mahachai on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters)   Thousands of Burmese migrants in Mahachai, near Bangkok, came to hear pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi speak on Wednesday morning during her first trip abroad for 24 years.

Burma is a multi-cultural society with multi-ethnicities. During its independence a feeling of awareness for an ethnic togetherness and comprehensive identity to form joint feelings for tranquillity and safety developed. On the basis of the agreed upon principle of  ‘unity in diversity’, articulated by the father of the nation General Aung San, the ‘Union of Burma’ came to existence on January 4, 1948.

BURMA opposition leader  Aung San Suu Kyi  has left the country for the first time in 24 years. Previously the pro-democracy campaigner was either under house arrest or too fearful that if she left  Burma , the government would never let her return.