YANGON, Myanmar – Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken from her home Wednesday into unannounced talks with a junta official, the first in two months, officials said.
Suu Kyi met for 45 minutes with Relations Minister Aung Kyi, who serves as a liaison between the military government and the 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity....
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace laureate, symbolises the struggle of Burma's people to be free.
She was born on June 19th, 1945 to Burma's independence hero, Aung San, who was assassinated when she was only two years old.
Aung San Suu Kyi was educated in Burma, India, and the United Kingdom. While studying at Oxford University, she met Michael Aris, a Tibet scholar who she married in 1972.
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I THINK of my sister Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi every day. Her picture hangs on the wall of my office, reminding me that, thousands of miles away in Asia, a nation is oppressed. Every day I ask myself: have I done everything I can to end the atrocities being committed in Burma?
And I pray that world leaders will ask themselves the same question. For if they did, the answer would be ‘‘no’’, and perhaps their conscience will finally force them to act.Humankind has the ability to live in freedom and in peace. We have seen that goodness has triumphed over evil;
A victory for the generals, another defeat for humanity
THE administration of justice in Burma has a certain predictability when it involves any perceived threat to the ruling junta. It came as no surprise, then, that after an 86-day trial characterised by delays and a lack of proper judicial process, a military-dominated court in Rangoon this week found democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of breaching the terms of her house arrest by failing to report an uninvited visit by an American man who swam to her lakeside home.
Under Burmese law, the Nobel laureate faced up to five years in prison. In the end, Ms Suu Kyi, who has spent nearly 14 of the past
20 years under house arrest, had her home detention extended by another 18 months. Significantly, the court's original sentence of three years' hard labour was reduced after the so-called intervention of the country's military leader, Senior General Than Shwe.
