Aung San Suu Kyi touches son Kim Aris in 10 years

Amid suppression of emotional bursts the younger son of Burma’s democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi saw his mother for the first time in a decade as thousands of followers watched the reunion.

Aung San Suu Kyi greeted Kim Aris at Rangoon airport as he arrived from Bangkok, after the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok granted him visa.

Aris had travelled to Thailand before his mother was freed on Nov 13 and waited to be granted a visa to his homeland.

Suu Kyi has been kept in detention for much of the past 21 years by the junta government.

The 65-year-old democratic leader was seen smiling at Rangoon airport and said she was very happy.

The two last met in Dec 2000, and since then the son was denied permission to enter the country.

It has also been a decade since she last saw her elder son, Alexander, and she has grandchildren she has never met.

Suu Kyi was released from house arrest less than a week after the country’s first election for 20 years, which was widely condemned as a sham designed to consolidate the military rulers’ power.