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Nobel Laureate Jody Williams Meets Suu Kyi
It was the first visit to Daw aung san suu kyi by another nobel Peace Laureatesince she received the award while under house arrest in 1991.
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Extractions: window.defaultStatus=''; self.moveTo(0,0); self.resizeTo(screen.availWidth,screen.availHeight); Contents Home News in Burmese Nationalities questions Documents ... Chat Room Seminars Mizzima's Activities Recent Activities New! English Language School Art Exhibitions Music Album Research on Indo-Burma Relations ... Mizzima Team Others Feedback Advertise Archives Calendar ... News in January 2003 Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com) The 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate Ms. Jody Williams visited Burma this week and met Burmas country-bound Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a press statement of Nonviolence International Southeast Asia yesterday. It was the first visit to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by another Nobel Peace Laureate since she received the award while under house arrest in 1991. Ms. Jody Williams, who received the Nobel Peace Laureate with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, carried personal messages of support from fellow Nobel Peace laureates Rigobera Menchu Tum, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dr. Oscar Arias, Joseph Rotblat, Norman Borlaug, Betty Williams, Mairead McGuire, to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Aung San Suu Kyi
In 1988 aung san suu kyi became the preeminent leader in Burma (now Myanmar) ofthe In 1991, while under house arrest, she was awarded the nobel Peace Prize.
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Extractions: Political leader, nationalist In 1988 Aung San Suu Kyi became the preeminent leader in Burma (now Myanmar) of the movement toward the reestablishment of democracy in that state. In 1991, while under house arrest, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Aung San Suu Kyi was internationally recognized as a vibrant symbol of resistance to authoritarian rule. On July 20, 1989, she was placed under house arrest by the military coup leaders, called the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), who came to power in Myanmar on September 18, 1988, in the wake of a popular but crushed uprising against the previous, and also military-headed socialist government. The nation's name had been changed from Burma to Myanmar in 1980. Father leads in independence from Britain Aung San Suu Kyi came from a distinguished Burmese family. Her father, Bogyoke (Generalissimo) Aung San, is known as the founder of independent Burma in 1948 and is widely revered in that country. He negotiated independence from the British and was able to weld the diverse ethnic groups together through the force of his personality and the trust he engendered among all groups. He was assassinated, along with most of his cabinet, by a disaffected Burmese politician, U (Mr.) Saw, on July 22, 1947, prior to independence on January 4, 1948. That day remains a national remembrance holiday in Myanmar. His loss slowed the realization of state unity. Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Burma on June 19, 1945. She spent her early years in Burma and then joined her mother, Daw Khin Kyi (all names in Burma are individual; there are no surnames), who was appointed as Burmese ambassador to India in 1960. She was partly educated in secondary school in India and then attended St. Hugh's College, Oxford University, where she received her bachelor's and master's degrees studying politics, economics, and philosophy. For two years she worked in the United Nations Secretariat in New York.
Caithness CWS - Links - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Article by Irwin Abrams on aung san suu KyiPublished in THE nobel PRIZE ANNUAL 1991.
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Extractions: Burma News Daw Aung San Suu Kyi , leader of the non violent movement for human rights and democracy in Burma (Myanmar), and Nobel laureate. The recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize meet on 8 December 2001 and she will not be one of them as she is under arrest. M ore than 30 Nobel Peace Prize laureates will gather in Oslo to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize. Yet one of its most well-known recipients, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the head of Myanmar's main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), cannot attend. She has been held under de facto house arrest since September 2000, and some 1,600 other political prisoners in Myanmar remain behind bars. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 to Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (Burma) for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Burma's liberation leader Aung San and showed an early interest in Gandhi's philosophy of non-violent protest. After having long refrained from political activity, she became involved in "'the second struggle for national independence" in Myanmar in 1988. She became the leader of a democratic opposition which employs non-violent means to resist a regime characterized by brutality. She also emphasizes the need for conciliation between the sharply divided regions and ethnic groups in her country. The election held in May 1990 resulted in a conclusive victory for the opposition. The regime ignored the election results. Suu Kyi refused to leave the country and since then, she has been kept under strict house arrest.
Tokyo Weekender - Feature - Aung San Syuu Kyi
The fate, the plight of nobel Prizewinning aung san suu kyi By NormanDorfman. Not even a brief travel article about Myanmar would
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Extractions: By Norman Dorfman Not even a brief travel article about Myanmar would be complete if it neglected to mention the charismatic woman who for the last decade has been the most famous political prisoner in the world. To many overseas, she has come to symbolize Burma itself, and is arguably the Burmese who has been most celebrated outside her county. Aung San Suu Kyi was born in 1945, the daughter of Aung San, the Burmese national hero who negotiated independence from the British. She spent more than 20 years away form Burma, returning for family reasons just at the height of impassioned demonstrations against the incompetent Ne Win regime in 1988. She entered politics and became a co-founder of the National League for Democracy. On July 20, 2989, she was detained under the 1975 law designed for "Safeguarding the State form Dangerous Subversive Elements." She was never charged or tried, but remained under house arrest until July 10, 1995. Although she can now move about Yangon, each time she has tried to leave to visit the countryside, she has found her way impeded by the military. In July 1998, her vehicle was stopped as she journeyed to visit party supporters; after a six-day standoff, during which she received neither food nor water, authorities forcibly returned her to Yangon.
Burma Action Ireland - Aung San Suu Kyi
1992 The nobel Committee revealed that aung san suu kyi has established a healthand education trust in support of the Burmese people to use the $1.3 million
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Burma Action Ireland - Aung San Suu Kyi
TRIUMPHS By Edward Klein Vanity Fair (October 1995) p. 120144 Six years under housearrest made aung san suu kyi, winner of the nobel Peace Prize, a legend.
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Extractions: She looked around and said, "Right here. On the day when they placed me under arrest, this garden was still quite beautiful. There were lots of white Madonna lilies, fields and fields of them, and frangipani, and fragrant yellow jasmines, and gardeniasall highly scented flowersand a flower from South America that changes its colour as it matures and is called 'yesterday, today, and tomorrow.' "In the beginning," she continued, "I'd go out and work in the garden and talk with the guards. There were 15 soldiers, all of them armed. But a garden like this requires a lot of money to keep up, and I couldn't afford to take care of it. Of course, I refused to accept anything from the military."
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Slap at Myanmar's Generals; Guarded optimism in Burma; A decade afterthe nobel Peace Prize, aung san suu kyi fights on; Persecution
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Translate this page Torna libera il nobel aung san suu kyi. La leader dell'opposizionebirmana, è stata liberata dopo 19 mesi di arresti domiciliari.
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University Gives Honours To Aung San Suu Kyi
accepting an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on behalf of his wife, nobel PeaceLaureate and Burmese democracy and human rights activist, aung san suu kyi.
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Extractions: 11 September 1998 Vol 7 No 34 "I have come here from the other side of the world to accept on behalf of my brave wife Suu this high honour from your great university," Dr Michael Aris told a conferring ceremony in the Wilson Hall last Saturday morning. Dr Aris was accepting an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on behalf of his wife, Nobel Peace Laureate and Burmese democracy and human rights activist, Aung San Suu Kyi. In a moving speech, Dr Aris said that if his wife had come to Melbourne in person the military authorities may have prevented her from returning to continue the struggle. Dr Aris said that the honorary degree, "now conferred on Suu celebrates her extraordinary efforts to establish the rule of law in her country. As the one who claims to know her best and love her most, I need hardly tell you what it means to me to see her properly recognised in this way." "Every day of the week in Burma's official media Suu is vilified, calumnied, slandered, taunted, ridiculed and insulted." Dr Aris said, explaining that she has no right of reply. "Even if she did she would be the last person to reply in kind, for she has never stooped to personal abuse." "This gesture of solidarity from your university is welcomed with all her heart."
Aung San Suu Kyi
In 1991, while under house arrest, she was awarded the nobel Peace Prize for herefforts to bring democracy to Burma. aung san suu kyi is the daughter of
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Extractions: Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Burma's liberation leader General Aung San , who was assassinated during the transition period in July 1947, just six months before independence. She was only two years old at the time. In 1960, she went to India with her mother Daw Khin Kyi, who had been appointed Burma's ambassador to Delhi. Four years later she went to Oxford University, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics. When in 1988, Suu Kyi returned to Rangoon, she arrived in the midst of a major political upheaval, as thousands of students, office workers and monks had taken to the streets, demanding democratic reform. Suu Kyi was soon propelled into leading the revolt against then-dictator General Ne Win. She became the leader of a democratic opposition that employed non-violent means to resist a regime characterized by brutality. Inspired by the non-violent campaigns of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and India's Mahatma Gandhi, she organised rallies and traveled throughout the country, calling for peaceful democratic reform and free elections, and emphasizing the need for conciliation between the sharply divided regions and ethnic groups.
Pravda.RU Aung San Suu Kyi Her Time Begins
the military junta, led by the dictator, General Ne Win, refused to hand over powerand placed aung san suu kyi under arrest. The 1991 nobel Peace Laureate
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Extractions: Her National League for Democracy won an overwhelming election majority in 1990, two years after she had returned to the country her father, General Aung San, led to independence before his assassination and after student unrest and demonstrations had brought the capital, Rangoon, to a standstill. The result of this was that the military junta, led by the dictator, General Ne Win, refused to hand over power and placed Aung San Suu Kyi under arrest. The 1991 Nobel Peace Laureate told her supporters that Burma was facing a new dawn and that her release from arrest was a major breakthrough for democracy, fulfilling the prophecy of Francis Sejested, the Chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, that she was an outstanding example of the power of the powerless. Accompanying her mother, the Burmese Ambassador to India, Aung San Suu Kyi lived in Japan and Bhutan before living permanently in Oxford with her husband, the Englishman Michael Aris, with whom she has two sons. However, she was drawn back to Burma, alone, in 1988, after violent clashes between the military regime and the people. I could not, as my fathers daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on, she claimed.
The New York Review Of Books: AN OPEN LETTER FROM NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES On The F
For five years nobel Peace Laureate aung san suu kyi has been held indetention without trial in violation of her fundamental rights.
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Extractions: September 22, 1994 Letter To the Editors The International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development has coordinated a joint letter signed by 14 Nobel Peace Laureates in support of Burmese Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The fifth anniversary of Suu Kyi's arrest was July 20. The letter is part of a world-wide effort to bring attention to Suu Kyi's continued detention and the efforts to develop democracy in that country. Carole Samdup Montreal, Canada To the State Law and Order Restoration Council of Burma For five years Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been held in detention without trial in violation of her fundamental rights. As well, she has been unable to fulfill her mandate as the elected leader of the Burmese people. We, the undersigned Nobel Peace Laureates, on the occasion of this sad anniversary, wish to once again express our deep concern over her arrest and the denial of her fundamental rights of free speech and political association. We condemn the State Law and Order Restoration Council's (SLORC) suppression of her rights and those of other political prisoners illegally detained in Burma.
Chapter 14. Sources On Aung San Suu Kyi. From The Book `Mental Culture In Burmes
The Lady aung san suu kyi, nobel Laureate and Burma's prisoner (London Faber,1998) by Barbara Victor, a journalist who normally specialises in the Middle
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Extractions: [Long Contents] [Short Contents] [Reviews] ... Asceticism Conference Houtman, Gustaaf. Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy. Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Monograph Series No. 33. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1999, 400 pp. ISBN 4-87297-748-3 ackn Sources on Aung San Suu Kyi I will deal with Aung San Suu Kyi's own writings later, but here I wish to briefly draw attention to the source material available in book form, which has so far all been of journalistic provenance. An overall comment on her profile presented in these works is necessary here. It is difficult to collect in-depth information about her as she has been isolated from the outside world except for the occasional interview with a journalist or politician. Her telephone has been cut off and visitors fear the unwelcome attention of military intelligence. More than that, however, it is difficult to come to terms objectively with personalities such as Aung San Suu Kyi because those who have written about her have also invested emotionally in her. It is difficult to be neutral. This makes any attempt to write an objective account of her life very difficult. And yet it is important that an attempt is made to highlight her life in different ways, for there is no doubt that Aung San Suu Kyi plays a role internationally, as she has captured the imagination of people all over the world. Not only does she represent the hope for the future on the part of the majority of the Burmese people, but also most free-thinking persons in the international environment. Indeed, she is being held up as an icon of humanitarian and democratic values under threat.
The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel Laureate And Burmas Prisoner
The Lady aung san suu kyi nobel Laureate and Burmas Prisoner. Book The Ladyaung san suu kyi nobel Laureate and Burmas Prisoner Customer Reviews
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The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate And Burmas Prisoner
The Lady aung san suu kyi nobel Laureate and Burmas Prisoner. Book The Ladyaung san suu kyi nobel Laureate and Burmas Prisoner Customer Reviews
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Bigchalk: HomeworkCentral: Aung San Suu Kyi, Daw (1991) (A-H)
Winners Peace AH aung san suu kyi, Daw (1991). World Book OnlineArticle on aung san suu kyi; Brief biography; 1991 nobel Peace Prize.
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Conclusions. Mr Olivier Dupuis. Recorded message Mrs aung san suu kyi,Leader of the Democratic Opposition in Burma, nobel Prize laureate
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Aung San Suu Kyi Released From House Arrest
the news this week of the release of its Honorary Member aung san suu kyi from 19months of house arrest in Rangoon, Myanmar. suu kyi, 1991 nobel laureate, is
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Extractions: PEN Canada welcomes the news this week of the release of its Honorary Member Aung San Suu Kyi from 19 months of house arrest in Rangoon, Myanmar. Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel laureate, is the leader of the National League for Democracy and has been waging a non-violent campaign for peaceful change in Myanmar since 1990, when her party's landslide victory in national elections was overturned by military leaders. She was previously held under house arrest from 1989 to 1995. Besides releasing Aung San Suu Kyi with a promise to not restrict her political or private activities, the military government has also indicated a willingness to release other political prisoners, a move which PEN Canada also welcomes. In particular, PEN Canada urges the military leaders of Myanmar to immediately release Honorary Members Aung Myint, Ko Aung Tun and Myo Htun, as well as the many other prisoners of conscience held in Myanmar. Aung Myint , a journalist, poet and head of the information department of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Rangoon, was arrested in September 2000 and sentenced to 21 years' imprisonment by a military court apparently for writing and distributing a press release following the latest arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung Myint's assistant, Kyaw Sein Oo, was also arrested and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.
Globalisationdebate.be 2002 - Biography Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
aung san suu kyi, Daw (1945 ), leader of the non-violent movement for human rights ofdemocracy in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), and nobel Peace Prize
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Extractions: Program 2002 Biography Daw Aung San Suu Kyi The harsh rule of the Myanmar military government led her to speak out for democracy. In 1988 she founded the National League for Democracy (NLD) with other leaders in the democracy movement. Her non-violent strategy of peaceful rallies and pacifism in the face of threats from the military effectively defused the military's sustained attempts to obstruct free elections. In July 1989 Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest by the military government for staging and speaking at mass gatherings, which were illegal in Myanmar. Despite her house arrest, Suu Kyi led the NLD to a landslide victory in May 1990, winning 80% of the parliamentary seats. However, the military government refused to allow the elected parliament to convene. Suu Kyi's arrest and confinement, which ended after 6 years in July 1995, drew national and international attention to the situation in Myanmar. She refused military offers that would allow her to leave the country because she would not be allowed to return. While under house arrest, Suu Kyi was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. After her release Suu Kyi continued the struggle for democracy in Myanmar despite being barred from leading the NLD by the military government. The military increasingly restricted Suu Kyi's movements during 1996 as it cracked down on NLD meetings and other activities. She was banned from traveling outside Yangon, but she defied the order and was again put under house arrest in September 2000. Suu Kyi was released from house arrest a second time in May 2002. The military government indicated the release was unconditional and that Suu Kyi was free to pursue her political activities as leader of the NLD.
CorpWatch.org - Bulletins - Aung San Suu Kyi, Human Rights
Known for her fiery charisma and Gandhilike essays on nonviolence and active resistance,aung san suu kyi was the only nobel Peace Prize recipient in the
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