Two Burmese activists, Athein and Zaw Min, who are walking across the country to bring attention to the repression of a military dictatorship in their home country, reached Salt Lake City this weekend.

After 690 miles of walking they were welcomed by 70 families from Salt Lake's Burmese community.

In the afternoon Zaw Min Htwe and Athein arranged to protest in Salt Lake and [in the] afternoon around 2 PM, Athein [gave a] speech to the Burmese community to help Burma and not to forget our leader Aung San Suu Kyi to get freedom from [the] terrorist military government.

The pair hopes to walk 3,000 miles from Portland to New York, meeting with Burmese-American communities along the way.

Aung San Suu Kyi, won a 1990 election but the military would not allow her to take power and placed her under house arrest. Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. For more information on the situation in Burma, which now calls itself Myanmar, go here.