Suu Kyi reunited with son after a decade

YANGON, Myanmar, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's pro-democracy champion, was reunited Monday with her younger son for the first time in 10 years.

Suu Kyi met her son, Kim Aris, at Yangon airport, where he had traveled from Thailand, the BBC reported.

Kim had traveled to Thailand from his U.K. home after his mother was granted her freedom Nov. 13. He repeatedly had been denied a visa to visit his mother since he last saw her in 2000.

Suu Kyi has not seen her elder son, Alexander, for a decade as well, and she has never met her grandchildren, the BBC said.

The opposition leader's house arrest was lifted less than one week after the first election in the country in two decades.