Aung San Suu Kyi has been released after spending much of the past 21 years in detention [AFP]
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, has been released after seven years of house arrest.
News agencies quoted witnesses as saying that she was meeting crowds of supporters at the gate of her home in Yangon, Myanmar's main city, soon after her release on Saturday.
Earlier, witnesses said hundreds of people rushed to her home after the authorities removed barricades in front of her compound.
Reuters news agency reported quoting a witness that Aung San Suu Kyi met a lawyer and a doctor inside her home.
A government official said the release order had been read by the authorities to her Aung San Suu Kyi, whose latest term of detention was due to expire on Saturday.
"We are still waiting for our glimpse of Aung San Suu Kyi," our special correspondent in Myanmar said.
"The crowd is growing by the minute outside the entrance to her home. People have been waiting seven years for this news."
He said a huge cheer that went up after the riot police loaded up their gear and left the area near Aung San Suu Kyi's home.
Nyo Myint, a spokesman for the NLD, told Al Jazeera: "I have no words to say. She just sacrificed for the people, who have really suffered. This is the moment that the Burmese people have hoped for - more than 20 years.
"The problem is that the regime has not changed anything in the past 20 years.
"This is the time to negotiate with the regime. Otherwise the regime is going to have more problems."
Source:http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/11/20101113105340355661.html
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