Suu Kyi visits Shan women

The Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has completed her longest political tour outside the capital, Rangoon, since the country's military rulers first placed her under house arrest 13 years ago.

She is back in Rangoon after a 15-day trip to the ethnically-troubled Shan state in the north-east of the country.

The visit was the most sensitive of the four she has made to different parts of Burma since her last period of detention ended in May, because of claims of serious abuses there by the Burmese army.

Human rights group allege that Shan women and girls have been systematically raped, and children forcibly conscripted.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service