Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi who has been incommunicado due to a House arrest placed on her by the Military-ruled Myanmar was released on Saturday after speculations that there was no word from the military government on her release today as earlier speculated in reports.



Suu Kyi waved to thousands of cheering supporters at the gates of her lakeside compound.

She then retreated back inside her home for the first meeting with her National League for Democracy party in seven years as world leaders applauded her release, expressed relief and urged the military junta in the former Burma to free more of its estimated 2,100 political prisoners.

Suu Kyi has been in detention for most of the past 21 years because of her opposition to 48 years of military rule in Myanmar.