Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver her first-ever remarks to a US congressional committee to raise awareness of human rights concerns, a lawmaker said Monday.

Suu Kyi has sent a recorded video message to be broadcast at a hearing Wednesday at the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on East Asia, said the US Campaign for Burma advocacy group and Representative Don Manzullo.

Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate, has spent most of the past two decades under house arrest but was freed in November. Wednesday’s hearing is due to discuss last year’s widely criticized election in Burma.

The hearing “will highlight these sham elections and Burma’s difficult road ahead,” Manzullo, a Republican from Illinois who heads the House subcommittee, said in a statement.

“I am excited to share the videotaped testimony,” he said, “so everyone can hear of the junta’s continued military offensives against ethnic groups and the dire human rights situation in Burma.”

The military-backed regime has announced a political transition amid talks with the United States on improving relations. But Washington and opposition groups say the changes are little more than cosmetic.

The United States has voiced concern and urged Burma’s government forces to cease hostilities after recent clashes in northern Kachin state, which has sent ethnic minority refugees fleeing across the border to China.

Suu Kyi, who turned 66 on Sunday, enjoys wide support in the US Congress. She was awarded the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal in 2008, but has not visited Washington to receive the award.