She spent much of the next two decades confined to her home by the ruling junta.
Their role has been vital: the ruling junta has kept most foreign aid agencies on a tight leash.
The meeting convenes seven years to the day that the ruling junta placed Suu Kyi under house arrest.
That the ruling junta, however, should have used his dying days for an undignified exercise in political point-scoring was outrageous.
In Myanmar restrictions on Aung San Suu Kyi and her opposition National League for Democracy were eased by the ruling junta.
The State Department explains that the ruling junta changed the name to Myanmar in 1989, but some in the democratic opposition don't recognize the change.
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In the past two weeks, the United Nations and President Bill Clinton have castigated SLORC, the ruling junta, for suppression of democracy and forced labor.
This is the poisoned fruit of a manipulated election by which the ruling junta of what calls itself Myanmar aimed to buy some rare legitimacy.
Two men who helped The Economist after Cyclone Nargis, which killed some 140, 000 people in 2008, were rounded up last September for opposing the ruling junta.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained leader of the opposition in Myanmar , met a minister from the ruling junta for the first time in two years.
This week, America tightened sanctions on the ruling junta's families.
There are some signs of that in Myanmar, where Aung San Suu Kyi, even under house arrest, bravely carries the torch for democracy amid the darkness imposed by the ruling junta.
The United States, the European Union and others are easing sanctions, allowing their citizens and businesses to directly invest in Myanmar after the ruling junta returned to civilian rule and allowed free elections.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who earlier this month visited Myanmar -- also known as Burma -- has asked the ruling junta to release all political prisoners, including the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The ruling junta blames tension on the opposition National League for Democracy, and especially its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who intends to convene the parliament which was elected in 1990 but which the junta has refused to recognise.
The assertion is plausible, but it does not explain why - for the third time in as many weeks - the ruling junta allowed Suu Kyi to drive far out of town before stopping her, thus creating the opportunity for a public confrontation.
The ruling military junta may cancel the elections and foment another rebellion.
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Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent years under house arrest under the former ruling junta but now hopes to bring her party to power, spoke of the law but not of sectarian tensions when asked about the verdict.
However, President Thein Sein - himself a member of the former ruling junta - has instituted enough reforms for observers to believe that real change may be taking place in the country.
They discussed the possibility of talks between Miss Suu Kyi and the ruling military junta.
She was placed under house arrest before her party won the 1990 general elections, which the ruling military junta did not recognize.
The ruling military junta changed its name from Burma to Myanmar in 1989, a year after thousands were killed in the suppression of a popular uprising.
Since Mubarak was ousted, the ruling military junta has taken actions that signal that Egypt is no longer interested in behaving in a manner that advances US interests.
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Burma is back in the news amid reports that the ruling military junta has set its upcoming "elections" for October 2010 and is making serious efforts to secure short-range ballistic missiles.
The ruling military junta in Myanmar -- traditionally known as Burma -- made a rare appeal for humanitarian aid as it continues plans to hold a referendum Saturday on a draft constitution.
The ruling military junta's decision to arrest Israeli-American Ilan Grapel on trumped-up espionage charges last week is just one more signal that post-Mubarak Egypt is turning its back on Egypt's peace with Israel.
The African Union said Tuesday it will impose more sanctions on the country, one day after the Economic Community of West African States slapped the ruling military junta with travel and economic restrictions after last month's coup.
Over the weekend, the junta now ruling Egypt refused to explicitly commit themselves to maintaining the treaty.
Than Shwe of the nation's ruling junta commuted it to the one-and-a-half years of house arrest.
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