Aung San Suu Kyi******Woman of PEACE

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Aung San Suu Kyi******Woman of PEACE

Aung San Suu Kyi, nobel peace prize laurate , is the icon of peace not only in Burma but also in the world.

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Aung San Suu Kyi******Woman of PEACE

Burma's sole national leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was born in June 19, 1945 from General Aung San, Burma's founding father, and Daw Khin Kyi, a nurse. 1945 was the year of Fascist Revolution in Burma and this revolution was led by General Aung San and 1945 was also the turning point in Burma's political landscape. After the World War II, the British re-entered onto the Burmese soil as a winner in the war. The war had changed the British politics at home and colonies, like Burma, were asking for independence.

Anti-Fascist group, led by General Aung San, was very popular among the Burmese people and he became a promising leader as young as at the age of 30. Next two years, he was assassinated by a pro-British politician in the eve of the country's independent time. Since then, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi lost his owned father as the country lost a great Leader. In her childhood life, she went to India, together with her ambassador mother, and studied at Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi until 1964. Then, she moved to England for studying at Oxford and earned a B.A degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1969. She married to a British scholar, Dr. Michael Aris and has two sons, Alexander and Kim.

In 1988, she came back to Burma for taking-care her ill mother, Daw Khin Kyi, and coincided with 1988 people's uprising. First time, she appeared in the public in August 26 at the Eastern entrance of Shwedagone, a greatest Pagoda in Rangoon, to address to half million people and announced people's struggle for Democracy as second attempt for independence after the British rule by referring the independent struggle which her father fought against the British rule. When this people struggle faced with another coup in September 18, 1988, she and her colleagues decided to form a political party, namely National League for Democracy (NLD), in September 27 of the same year.

As a courageous leader of a political leader under the military rule, she travelled through out the country in 1989 and campaigned against the military rule for the future of Burma. That's why; she was threatened her life in one trip to Irrawaddy delta region. However, she never gave up her dedication to the country. In July 19, 1989, at the forty second anniversary of his father's assassination day, also known as Martyr day in Burma, she faced with heavy pressure from the ruling military council not organize a public rally to her father tomb. It was the last day of her freedom in Burma after she came back in 1988 because the junta put her under house arrest in the next day as the first time during her stay in Burma. Although she was under house arrest, her party, National League for Democracy, won landslide in May election of 1990.

The junta rejected the result of this election and instead, it organized National Convention to draw the country's third constitution. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in July 1995. Right after she was released, she built up party structure again and recruited more members, especially from youth population. Through out 1998, her party and ruling council, namely State Peace and Development Council, faced in confrontational position when the party congress in May called for People's Parliament within 60 days. At the same time, she was barred from travelling outside of Rangoon. One time, she stayed for six day in the car at road-side near to Rangoon and another time for twelve day as protest against the junta's order to restrict her travelling. This confrontation was the highest level in 2000 when she tried to travel to Mandalay, the second capital of Burma, by train. She was taken from the train station and put under house arrest as second time.

It was last long for only two years and in May 6, 2002, she was released. On that day, the junta proclaimed it opened new page of the History. The public and international community expected the genuine dialogue between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the junta. After her release, she was allowed to travel to countryside and meet with party members. However, it was until May 30, 2003 and pro-junta thugs attacked Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's motorcade near Depe Yinn Township, upper Burma. Since then, she was detained in unknown location and later on, moved to her home in lakeside villa. It is the third time for her detention in house-arrest and the last one so far. However, the regime has refused to release her even though international community, including ASEAN, urged to release her.

In August and September of 2007, the public and the Buddhist monks organized peaceful rally against the regime's decision to higher up the patrol price because this decision created more economic hardship to the public. However, the Army and pro-junta groups suppressed the rally brutally and arrested several activists, including prominent student leaders. The real dead-toll of the accidents is still unknown. When the international out-cry was severed against their brutal measurement against the peaceful rally, the country's top general agreed to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi via a liaison minister.

“If this country is to achieve genuine democracy, the result of the elections of 1990 must be recognized. It must be recognized by the military regime, as it has been recognized by the people, and by the world at large. It is through this recognition that we will be able to make genuine progress in Burma. The results of the 1990 General Elections must be implemented is a resolution already taken by the United Nations. We already know that the General Assembly of the United Nations has accepted the notion that the will of the people has been expressed in the 1990 General Elections. This is something we can not abandon. It will be to the detriment of our country if after an election has been held the results are not honoured and we do not resist attempts to trivialise it”, Aung San Suu Kyi insists.


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Comment by Clicia Pavan on August 12, 2009 at 1:32am
Still claims that the continuous release of house arrest, "said the head of American diplomacy, leading to the Burmese military junta.
One is the international community to call for the immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi, "The unjust decision today makes them remember the thousands of political prisoners in Myanmar, as Aung San Suu Kyi, were deprived of their liberty because they seek a government that respects the wishes, rights and aspirations of all Burmese citizens, "the statement stressed.
The Burmese Aung San Suu Kyi claimed innocence in this Friday before the court that the judge for violating the conditions of home detention, informed a spokesman of the party led by Nobel Prize of Peace
"I am not guilty, since not committed any crime," said Suu Kyi, according to the lawyer and spokesman Nyan Win.
AP Image of meeting between diplomats and Suu Kyi (in pink) shown by state television in Myanmar Suu Kyi, 63, was arrested in the last 14 days, with the two employees, after receiving a visit by two days of the American John William secretly Yettaw in your home. Yettaw, 53, was arrested on May 6 after leaving the home of opposition leader returned when swimming at Inya Lake.
Held for 13 years to defend democracy in a country ruled by military, Suu Kyi should be released in the next 27 days.
Myanmar's government claims that the leader violated the terms of house arrest - which prohibits foreigners from sleep at home Burmese. No information about the reasons for the visit. However, the press published in Thailand in the last 15 days Yettaw speculation that wanted to do an article to tell the experiences of the leader in prison.
The military regime of Myanmar accused the dissent of the invasion plan to the house of Suu Kyi.
"The most likely is that anti-internal and external elements planned the incident to increase international pressure on Myanmar," said the Foreign Minister of Myanmar, Nyan Win, to his fellow Japanese, Hirofumi Nakasone.
Governments around the world and international organizations with the UN front, condemned the process and demanded the immediate release of opposition leader.
This Thursday, the fourth and final hearing this week, was shown a video recorded Yettaw Suu Kyi's house without his permission.
"She is nervous, so sorry," said Yettaw own during the recording, the second reported the lawyer Nyan Win, one of the supporters of Suu Kyi.
The American said during the trial that he entered the house because the opponent had a premonition. "I had a vision that Aung San Suu Kyi would be killed. I came here," he said.
Suu Kyi's defense argues that his client would be allowed Yettaw night in his home by compassion, because he realized that he was very tired after swimming across the Inya Lake and could not return.
Moreover, the advocates say the blame for the invasion and the authorities, who are responsible for the security of home.
The Efe and France Presse
Comment by Clicia Pavan on August 11, 2009 at 10:42pm
ipeace we will not remain indifferent to such injustice ... Let her call for justice
Justice for Aung San Suu Kyi--Namaste

In support of Aung San Suu Kyi August 11, 2009
Demonstration in front of the embassy of Myanmar in London, England, this Tuesday. The protesters disagreed with the ruling that ordered a year and a half home for the Asian country's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Comment by Clicia Pavan on August 11, 2009 at 10:32pm

Justice for Aung San Suu Kyi. The European Union (EU) and the organization of human rights Amnesty International (AI) condemned the verdict against Aung San Suu Kyi. The EU demanded the immediate release of Suu Kyi and announced new sanctions against the Asian country. "The EU strongly calls on the authorities to immediately and unconditionally to release," says the text published in Tuesday. Already Amnesty International considered "shameful" the conviction and also ordered the release "immediately and unconditionally." "The arrest, trial and now the verdict is not more than a comedy and judicial policy," said the secretary general of AI, Irene Khan, before qualifying the entire process of "shameful."

Suu Kyi, awarded the Nobel Peace in 1991, is leader of the opposition to the dictatorial regime of the country and human rights activist. She is the daughter of Aung San, the hero of Burma's national independence, which came to be called Myanmar. His father was murdered when she was only two years old. Suu Kyi to house arrest was imposed from 1989 until mid-1995. After that, came to have a brief period of "freedom" until 2000. This year, however, she was again confined between the four walls of his residence for over 19 months. The military junta that rules the country has extended from time to time in its condemnation. Namaste
Comment by Clicia Pavan on August 11, 2009 at 10:27pm
Injustice committed against human rights in Yangon ---- The court condemned Aung San Suu Kyi to "three years of forced labor." However, the measure was exchanged - because the orders of Than Shwe, leader of the military dictatorship in Burma - the 18 months of house arrest.

The verdict brought an end to proceedings against the leader of the opposition, the National League for Democracy (NLD, in English), controlled from the outset by the regime, aiming to extend the sentence of the "lady". So unexpected, the court allowed the journalists were present at the reading of the verdict.

After reading the sentence, there was a break of five minutes. Then, the minister of home affairs entered the audience room and read a special order of Than Shwe, who decided to change the sentence to "18 months of house arrest."

From the beginning, the case seemed a trick "strategically prepared" to condemn the military junta again the leader of the opposition. The dictatorship is in power in Myanmar since 1962, and accused Aung San Suu Kyi to prevent her from participating parliamentary elections scheduled for 2010. The 18 months of house arrest are the limits of time sufficient to exclude the main candidate of the opposition - which won the elections in 1990. Namaste
Comment by Clicia Pavan on August 2, 2009 at 1:02am

31/07/2009 SOS for Aung San Suu Kyi
Suu Kyi is seen as a person intelligent, charismatic and courageous. His opponents accuse of intransigent

We hope to fear the "verdict" of the Aung San Suu Kyi by the Burmese military cut ... Knowing the cruelty, the disdain and hatred of the military on it, we can certainly prepare ourselves for the worst. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is a victim of the generals for two decades. They have tried to murdering her in 2003 and since then continue to pursue it. We know they want to "remove it" for at least a year, time to prepare and win their "elections," time to ensure that no democratic resistance is possible ...

We know that Aung San Suu Kyi is brave, but is not well. We know that she is confident, but how long that body of a woman can endure? We know what the "charges" against him: all because of an American who, deceiving the soldiers watched, swam up to his "house arrest" and was at home for a day and two nights. She prayed it was though, that bear a Mormon bible! But he refused. And that was well suited to the military junta.

The crime of Aung San Suu Kyi? There have denounced the intrusion of the military enthusiast among the soldiers who surrounded his residence under surveillance! Soldiers who, it must be admitted, showed an incredible distraction that day because they were confined for nearly 14 years without anyone ever managed to approach it, keeping it in a total isolation. Some talk of a manipulation or a trap. Anyway, it is a perfect opportunity for the military in power.
All this would be laughable and ridiculous, if the life of Aung San Suu Kyi was not involved, because once again imprisoned in the Insein prison to 64 years, she has a health increasingly fragile.
Your destiny is closely linked to that of his companions in misfortune, other political prisoners, tortured and kept in prison with sentences that, for some, reaching up to 65 years in prison for taking part of the "Saffron Revolution" or speaking with foreigners. In this state of terror that is the generals of Myanmar, the Burmese people, the only hope that there is Aung San Suu Kyi and National League for Democracy, of which she is leader.
She has remained steady for twenty years, but this time feared the worst: a ruling that could shut it forever. (Le monde)--Namaste
Comment by Clicia Pavan on July 28, 2009 at 3:45pm

Ipeace Come be part of group--- Let's help these brothers who are seeking peace, union makes a difference I am Muslim! I am Hindu! And I'm Jewish! I am Christian! "Mahatma Gandhi
"There is no path to peace, peace is the way"
The world today has to learn to live with differences --- Respecting the right of the next
Namaste
-------
Vamos Ipeace ser parte del grupo ---
Vamos a ayudar a estos hermanos que buscan la paz, la unión hace la diferencia
Soy musulmán! Estoy hindúes! Y estoy judío! Soy cristiano! "Mahatma Gandhi
"No hay camino hacia la paz, la paz es el camino"
El mundo de hoy tiene que aprender a vivir con diferencias --- Respetar el derecho de la próxima
Namaste
Comment by Myo Thein on July 21, 2009 at 2:37am
"Words need to be back up by Action"

“There have been many words supporting democracy, and we are duly grateful for them, because we do not underestimate the power of words. But words need to be backed up by action -- by action that is united and that is focused on essentials. Only by such action will we be able to realize our democratic aspirations”. (Aung San Suu Kyi)
Comment by noellivan b. mendez on July 1, 2009 at 10:49am
power woman!
Comment by Myo Thein on May 23, 2009 at 3:44am
SOS: Aung San Suu Kyi Update (Time to Reinforce More Action)
by BDC
22 May 2009

Aung San Suu Kyi Clear Message to the Public


"Everyone got a role to play in democratisation process of Burma. If you see injustice going on, do not sit tight and just look on. Please do something and voice for justice. Please help us by all means.If someone asked NLD what actions has been taking to bring about democracy in Burma then I will ask you what have you done for it."

Ban Ki-Moon said on 21 May that he will go to Burma ASAP. This is welcome but should be results orientated trip.

Demands to Ban Ki-Moon

to release Aung San Suu Kyi immediately and unconditionally along with thousands of all other political prisoners
to take place dialogue immediately
to establish United Nations General Secretary's Liaison Office in Burma which will be focusing on to take place the dialogue, to monitor the situation and to facilitate the process

Demands to United Nations Security Council

We demand the United Nations Security Council Emergency Meeting to resolve Burma crisis
We must have the United Nations Security Council Binding Resolution on Burma

Demands to International Diplomats in Burma

Please keep on showing your support at the Aung San Suu Kyi's trial
Demand the junta the trial be PUBLIC hearing
Diplomats presence at and around the trial is very important as it will send message to junta to exercise restrain

Demands to International Governments

Please keep on pressing junta until Aung San Suu Kyi is to be released from prison
Please call for United Nations Security Council Emergency Meeting
Adopt UNSC binding resolution on Burma

World Citizens

Please keep on voicing for Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma
Please keep on pressing your respective governments to take practical action on Burma

For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at

http://www.bdcburma.org/NewsDetails.asp?id=428
http://bdc-burma.blogspot.com/
Comment by Clicia Pavan on May 22, 2009 at 2:29am

Freedom for Aung San Suu Kyi Namaste
 

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