Who has not heard about AUNG
SAN SUUI KYI? She is praised and respected throughout the
world in general and in Myanmar (formerly called Burma) and other countries of South Asia in particular for courageous fight for the restoration of
democracy in her homeland which is being ruled by
power-drunk army generals for the past more than four decades now.
She is the world’s only imprisoned noble prize winner, and has spent nearly one decade of the past 16 years under house-arrest or behind bars, despite the demands by United Nations secretary General Kofi Annan and the world leaders including George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and foreign ministers of various countries all over the world. Although there are no significant developments on the part of Myanmar’s brutal
military regime to free her soon and she is currently being detained at her old family home on a quite lake in the northern part of the capital city Yangoon (formerly called Rangoon).
Myanmar (formerly called Burma) has been under military rule since a coup d’etat in 1962. In 1988, amid violent protests, the army massacred thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators, leading to another coup. In 1990, national assembly elections were held in which AUNG SAN SUUI KYI’s
party won 82 percent seats but the military dictators led by General Than Shwe refused to handover the power to the elected party.
Since then, Myanmar, once the wealthiest countries in south Asia has become one of the poorest in the world and is continuously isolated from the outside world through extreme suppression. The listening to overseas radio channels or watching foreign satellite channels may lead to 7 years of prison. The dissidents are arrested in the middle of the night and put behind bars like Aung San Suui Kyi.
Aung San Suui Kyi has time and again refused to compromise with military dictators rather she demands to honor the verdict of the people in 1990 polls and transfer the power to her party, National League for Democracy (NLD). She turned 60 on June 19, 2005 but she was not allowed to meet anybody but at NLD’s headquarters, thousands of people celebrated her birthday in order to praise her resolve, her principled stand, self-sacrifice and determination to get rid of military dictatorship. Her birthday was also celebrated through out the world and Thammasat Univesrity in Bangkok awarded an honorary doctorate in political science to Aung San Suui Kyi which was received by one of her representative.
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