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# Breaking up with tradition, ASEAN receives UN praise
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18656/
- Published: 2005-12-13T17:12:23.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:34:33.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

Democracy activist and 1991 Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released a few hours ago. Placed repeatedly under house arrest since her party won the National League for Democracy won 83% of the seats in the 1990 parliamentary elections but was denied power by military, she had been under the same undisrupted house arrest since May 2003.

  
This liberation occurred as a result of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asia Nations) two-day summit which started yesterday.  
Breaking with the ASEAN tradition of non-intervention in internal affairs, the south-east Asian leaders urged Myanmar for political reforms and the freeing of detainees.  
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan praised the ASEAN leaders for their call on Myanmar.

  
Myanmar has been living under a political regime since 1962, and is horrifically famous for being the poorest country of South-East Asia, its complete lack of any kind of freedom, and its extended use of child soldiers in armies (official or not).  
  
  
Find out more on Myanmar [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar?ref=opendemocracy.net), more on the ASEAN summit decision [here](http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2005%5C12%5C13%5Cstory%5F13-12-2005%5Fpg4%5F11&ref=opendemocracy.net), and more on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung%5FSan%5FSuu%5FKyi?ref=opendemocracy.net).