Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi -- who has been under house arrest for 12 of the last 18 years -- left her home Thursday in Yangon. A U.S. diplomat in Yangon, citing local sources, told CNN Suu Kyi was possibly headed for a meeting with the country's newly appointed liaison officer.The diplomat said she witnessed a convoy carrying Suu Kyi leave home at around 2 p.m. (3:30 a.m. ET), and had been told by local sources that she was to meet with U Aung Kyi at a Yangon guest house where she has previously met with government officials.
Suu Kyi has been under house arrest at the property in Yangon for the last three years.
Amid international pressure following September's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations, Myanmar's ruling junta named deputy minister of labor Aung Kyi as its liaison officer with the detained Nobel laureate.
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