ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Thousands thronged a downtown square in Oslo on Saturday to celebrate, see and listen to Myanmar pro-democracy campaigner and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The event took place following the ceremony in which she finally accepted her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize after spending a total of 15 years under house arrest.<br/> <br />Suu Kyi gave an emotional speech and said full political freedom in her country was still a long way off.<br/> <br />A large crowd gathered outside the City Hall waiting to cheer the pro-democracy leader and show their support despite the unpleasant weather in the Norwegian capital.<br/> <br />"I wanted to come here simply to say thank you. To thanks the people of Norway for their friendship, for their understanding, for they compassion," she told the crowd.<br/> <br />Suu Kyi, the Oxford University-educated daughter of General Aung San, Myanmar's assassinated independence hero, advocated caution about transformation in Myanmar, whose quasi-civilian government continues to hold political prisoners.<br/> <br />The 66-year-old, elected to her country's parliament in April after two decades under house arrest, is on the second-leg of an European trip.
