OXFORD has been at the centre of Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to the UK, but a small village near Banbury will no doubt hold memories for her as well.
Her husband Michael Aris died from prostate cancer in 1999 aged 53 and is buried at St Mary & St Peter, Weedon Lois, Northamptonshire.
Such is the interest in Ms Suu Kyi’s every movement that a Japanese TV news crew was spotted at the churchyard on Tuesday.
Mr Aris met the Burmese democracy campaigner while a student at Oxford University and they married in 1972.
The couple had two children, Alexander Aris and Kim Aris, and lived in the UK until her return to Burma in 1988, when it fell under military rule.
After being put under house arrest in 1989 she saw her husband only five times, the last in 1995.
Mr Aris – who taught at St John's and St Antony's College in Oxford – was denied a visa to visit Burma.
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