Aung San Suu Kyi Visits Mae La Refugee Camp

Aung San Suu Kyi Visits Mae La Refugee Camp - Aung San Suu Kyi turned her attention to Myanmar's long-standing refugee crisis Saturday with a visit to a sprawling camp on Thailand's border to get her first glimpse of the hardships faced by hundreds of thousands who have fled war in her homeland.

Hundreds of cheering supporters welcomed Suu Kyi at the airport in the town of Mae Sot, and she was then driven in a police-led convoy to the Mae La refugee camp. The camp is home to about 45,000 refugees who live in thatched huts at the base of mist-shrouded mountains.