After Election Win, Suu Kyi Gets to Work Cleaning Up Burma
Following her party’s landmark election win, Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed to give her desperately poor country a much-needed face-lift.
Leader of National League for Democracy party (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi (front C) picks garbage during a clean-up drive initiated by Suu Kyi in Kawhmu, Burma, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015. Suu Kyi lead the garbage collection on early foggy Sunday in Kawhmu township of Yangon region, where she won her seat for the Lower House in the country’s general election. AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe
KAWHMU, Burma/Myanmar—Following her party’s landmark election win, Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed to give her desperately poor country a much-needed face-lift.
Wearing plastic gloves, the septuagenarian got to it early Sunday, walking along the edge of an old, pot-holed road in her constituency, Kawhmu, picking up discarded water bottles, plastic bags and instant coffee wrappers.
Villagers rushed to help, filling up their own big sacks with garbage.
