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Suu Kyi supporters mark 65th birthday

AFP, Yangon
From tree planting in Myanmar to a solidarity rally in Washington and flash mobs in Britain, people around the world are holding events today to mark the 65 th birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Supporters of Myanmar's iconic democracy leader plan to throw a small party for her at one of their houses in northern Yangon, but Suu Kyi won't be there.
Instead the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in detention for almost 15 years, is expected to spend a quiet day at her lakeside mansion where she is kept without telephone or Internet access, cut off from the outside world.
Members of her National League for Democracy are planting about 20,000 saplings around Myanmar to mark her birthday.
Nandar Lin, 22, said women NLD youth members would recall Suu Kyi's past speeches today "as a birthday present to her".
"I haven't seen Daw Suu in person since I joined the party in 2007," she lamented. 'Daw' is a term of respect in Myanmar.
Her party won the last vote in 1990 but was never allowed to take office, and she is barred from standing in the upcoming polls — the country's first in two decades.
Critics say the elections are a sham aimed at simply entrenching the generals' power, and a UN working group this week pronounced her detention a breach of international human rights law, prompting new calls for her release.
Suu Kyi's NLD is no longer recognised by the junta as an official party after refusing to meet a May 6 deadline to re-register -- a move that would have forced it to expel its leader and other members in detention.
Under election legislation unveiled in March, anyone serving a prison term is banned from being a member of a political party and parties that fail to obey the rule will be abolished.
Among events planned worldwide, activists will stage a rally on today outside the Capitol Building in Washington, while in London campaigners plan a demonstration yesterday in front of the Myanmar embassy.
Elsewhere in Britain, supporters are calling for flash mobs — large groups of people who mass suddenly in public places -- to gather Saturday in different locations with Suu Kyi face masks to raise aware-
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And in Bangkok, opposition groups held a ceremony where they cut a birthday cake and delivered impassioned speeches calling for her release.
Suu Kyi had her incarceration lengthened by 18 months in August last year after being convicted over a bizarre incident in which a US man swam to her lakeside home, and there are fears her detention may be extended again.
BRIRTAIN URGES SUU KYI'S RELEASE
Britain called yesterday for Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be immediately and unconditionally released.
"Aung San Suu Kyi is 65 this Saturday [today), having spent 14 of the last 20 years under house arrest," said Foreign Secretary William Hague.
"Her continued detention, and that of more than 2,100 other political prisoners in Burma (Myanmar), contravenes international human rights law and casts
a long shadow over planned elections in the country.
"I urge the military regime to release all political prisoners immediately and unconditionally, and respect the human rights of Burma's people." THE ELDERS LEAVE EMPTY CHAIR
A group of global statesmen founded by Nelson Mandela urged Myanmar's neighbours Thursday to boost pressure on the reclusive state, to mark democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's 65th birthday.
The Elders, who include former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan, ex US president Jimmy Carter and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, made the appeal after leaving a seat symbolically empty for Aung Sang Suu Kyi at a meeting in South Africa.
At a recent meeting in Johannesburg, the Elders kept an empty chair draped in Burmese silk to symbolise the absence of "Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's thousands of political prisoners.”