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"Please use your liberty to promote ours."
-Aung San Suu Kyi
Suu Kyi is the heart of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar (Burma). Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, she has been held in detention by the Myanmar military regime for 11 of the past 17 years although her party, the National League for Democracy, won a landslide victory in the 1990 general election. Last month, her detention was extended for another year. She is being detained at her residence. She has no telephone and is allowed no visitors apart from her maid and doctor. She turned 62nd on June 19.
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Can you imagine if the dictators in Burma knew what they were adding up for themselves? I think they would quickly hand over the keys...
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