NAYPYIDAW — Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged members of Myanmar's powerful military Tuesday to support her opposition party in April by-elections as she campaigned for votes on the regime's doorstep.
In a sight almost unthinkable until recently, several thousand people turned out each time the National League for Democracy (NLD) party leader delivered a speech in areas on the fringes of the showpiece capital Naypyidaw.