Photo gallery: Suu Kyi wraps up 2-week US tour
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Nobel Peace laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi laughs while answering a question during a meeting with the Burmese community at the Los Angeles Convention Centre in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to supporters at the Convention Centre in Los Angeles on Oct 02, 2012. Ms Aung San Suu Kyi wraps up a two-week landmark trip to the United States with an emotional event for supporters and Myanmar expatriates in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Nobel Peace laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi walks past the flags of the National League for Democracy, a Burmese political party, as she arrives for a meeting with the Burmese community at the Los Angeles Convention Centre in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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Members of Burma Task Force USA protest against the visit of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she speaks to Myanmar ex-patriots in Los Angeles, California on Oct 2,2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Supporters arrive to see Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi at the Convention Centre in Los Angeles on Oct 2, 2012. Ms Aung San Suu Kyi wraps up a two-week landmark trip to the United States with an emotional event for supporters and Myanmar expatriates in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
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A woman arrives to see Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi at the Convention Centre in Los Angeles on Oct 2, 2012. Ms Aung San Suu Kyi wraps up a two-week landmark tour of the United States with an emotional event for supporters and Myanmar expatriates in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
Nobel Peace laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi laughs while answering a question during a meeting with the Burmese community at the Los Angeles Convention Centre in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to supporters at the Convention Centre in Los Angeles on Oct 02, 2012. Ms Aung San Suu Kyi wraps up a two-week landmark trip to the United States with an emotional event for supporters and Myanmar expatriates in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
Nobel Peace laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi walks past the flags of the National League for Democracy, a Burmese political party, as she arrives for a meeting with the Burmese community at the Los Angeles Convention Centre in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
Members of Burma Task Force USA protest against the visit of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she speaks to Myanmar ex-patriots in Los Angeles, California on Oct 2,2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
Supporters arrive to see Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi at the Convention Centre in Los Angeles on Oct 2, 2012. Ms Aung San Suu Kyi wraps up a two-week landmark trip to the United States with an emotional event for supporters and Myanmar expatriates in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
A woman arrives to see Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi at the Convention Centre in Los Angeles on Oct 2, 2012. Ms Aung San Suu Kyi wraps up a two-week landmark tour of the United States with an emotional event for supporters and Myanmar expatriates in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
Myanmar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi paid tribute on Tuesday to past models of democratic transition in eastern Europe, South Africa and Latin America as she wrapped up a two-week United States tour.
But she said Myanmar has to develop its own form of democracy, and would probably not be like that in America - which is preparing for a presidential election only weeks away.
