Rome:
The Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar has received Rome’s honorary citizenship on Sunday night in City Hall on the ancient Capitoline Hill.
It may be mentioned here that in 1994, Rome had conferred the honor in absentia on Suu Kyi, a champion of democracy who spent years as a political prisoner in her homeland.
She and her National League for Democracy party were frozen out of politics by the military regime that governed until 2011, and last year she and several dozen party members won parliamentary seats.
While picking up the honor on Sunday, she recalled her visit to Rome while as a student at Oxford. However on Monday, Suu Kyi met with Pope Francis at the Vatican.
