Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport tonight on her first trip to a foreign country in 24 years.
She took her first steps outside the airport at 10:11pm surrounded by handlers and police, and was quickly whisked to a chauffeured BMW. The Lady wore a saffron orange top and a gold skirt and smiled at press and admirers who had waited behind barricades to take photos or catch a glimpse of the momentous arrival of the democracy icon.
Suu Kyi will spend four days in Thailand, making a speech at the World Economic Forum on East Asia at the Shangri-La Hotel.
Tomorrow morning she will visit Mahachai in Samut Sakhon province near Bangkok, an area known as “Little Burma” because of the estimated 300,000 Burmese migrant workers who live there.
