Key Myanmar Opposition Leader Holds a Reunion : Southeast Asia: Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi meets with British husband and son after lengthy house arrest.

The British husband and a son of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Myanmar on Saturday for their first family reunion since Suu Kyi was released from six years of house arrest July 10.

Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, was detained by the military government in 1989 after leading pro-democracy demonstrations. Her party won general elections a year later, but the military refused to honor the results.

During all but the last 1 1/2 years of her detention, Suu Kyi was allowed to meet only with members of her immediate family, a housekeeper and liaison officers from the military.

Last year a few select outsiders were also allowed to visit.

Her husband, Michael Aris, 49, is an Oxford professor and a specialist in Tibetan studies. Family members said he arrived in Myanmar on Saturday with the couple’s son Kim, 18. The couple has another son, 22-year-old Alexander.

Aris and Kim last saw Suu Kyi in December. Authorities earlier this year denied Aris a visa, apparently out of irritation that he had carried a statement from his wife out of the country.

Myanmar’s state-controlled media have made frequent though indirect references to the fact that Suu Kyi is married to a foreigner, suggesting that the union would make her the puppet of foreign powers.

Guidelines proposed for a new constitution would bar Myanmar citizens married to foreigners from holding executive positions in government. The provision, like the rest of the charter in the draft stage, is obviously aimed at Suu Kyi.