Myanmar pro democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives doctorate from Oxford. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).<br/> <br />Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was given an honourary doctorate at Oxford University, her alma mater, on Wednesday.<br/> <br />She said said happy memories from her time at the university helped sustain her through almost two decades of house arrest.<br/> <br />Suu Kyi is the daughter of Aung San, the assassinated leader of Myanmar's struggle for independence from British rule.<br/> <br />Now a symbol of non-violent political resistance, Suu Kyi, 67, left her family in Britain in 1988 to nurse her dying mother in Myanmar, where she was swept up in pro-democracy protests<br/> <br />that the military brutally crushed.<br/> <br />While in Oxford, Suu Kyi was expected to meet her sons and other family members, some of whom she had never met, in a private reunion - a moment certain to be both joyful and painful for a woman who refused to leave Myanmar for decades for fear that its military leaders would not let her back in.
