Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience
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Green Reading - Adrian Windisch (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Help free Suu Kyi and other high profile human rights defenders during Amnesty International's Global Write-a-thon, the world's largest letter writing event, December 5-13th. The more letters we send, the better chance we have at setting Aung San Suu Kyi free. Please pledge to write a letter on behalf of Aung San Suu Kyi. In the days surrounding International Human Rights Day –...
KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/asiapac/stories/200911/s2745602.htm informal summary -- need to move from talking about talks to real talks.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... as usual. The optimists point to recent engagement by the US, and nascent dialogue between Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese regime. Aung San Suu Kyi has recently written to Senior General Than Shwe offering to meet him to discuss how they can work together for the benefit of the people of Burma. Were it not for bitter experience, people might be getting ready to celebrate and preparing...
Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
by BRANDON BUCK , Causecast Video Producer 2010 will be a very important year for Burma and the fate of democracy in the country, as the first general election will take place in nearly two decades. In August, President Obama asked that all political prisoners in Burma, naming Aung San Suu Kyi specifically , be set free, which the Burmese court rejected and is currently being appealed by Aung...
The F-Word Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... out. I stand as a survivor and will continue to concentrate my efforts on never being defeated. Aung San Suu Kyi, our sister who is under house arrest for peaceful resistance in Burma, and a woman who I stand in solidarity with at this vigil today, spoke once of living with ‘grace under pressure’. She says: “Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Conflict in Burma dominated media headlines during the protests in the autumn of 2007. It was not the first time that the world took note of the division between state and society in that country. This conflict between society and the regime has been an issue of international concern since the 1990 election following which the military prevented the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung...
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of National League for Democracy-NLD. (3) Release of all political prisoners including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, U Tin Oo and Khun Tun Oo; This Congress consisted Central Committee and 7 members of Executive Committee including the leaders as following to implementing the programs laid down by 3rd Congress; 1. Mai Aik Phone – Chairman 2. Mai Bhone Kyaw – General Secretary 3. Ta Soo Myaim – Joint...
- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
“Like Burma,†he added, referring to Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained opposition leader and fellow Nobel peace prize laureate. “Communist hardliners believe that power comes from the barrel of a gun,†the Dalai Lama said, …Click Here
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... detained. Two years after Buddhist monks marched down the street of the detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hundreds of monks are in prison and thousands remain fearful of military repression. Many have left their monasteries and returned to their villages or sought refuge abroad, while those who remained in their monasteries live under constant surveillance.
Art reviw Alex Stalenbertg (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Freedom & Art Tour Mirca Art Group’s first major exhibition tour now moves to its second venue, the Karpeles Manuscript Museum in Newburgh, New York. Produced in response to Aung San Suu Kyi’s continued detention in Burma, where the military junta still refuse to permit her to take her elected post as president of the country, this curated show also supports Mirca’s recent book ‘Freedom & Art’...
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... holding of free and transparent elections in 2010 and the release of political prisoners such as Aung San Suu Kyi, among others As co-founders of what is now the ASEAN, Indonesia and the Philippines are at the forefront of talks, albeit guarded, for an expanded Asian region, to be known as the East Asia Community (EAC) to include such powers as the United States. Natalegawa said that as...
KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with US delegation led by Kurt Campbell. Couple talking -- Giacommetti -- The Queen -- at National Gallery, DC -- photo Kyi May Kaung
Time (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... he praised the military junta in Burma as "good Buddhists" and called Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi a "tool of the West." Nonetheless, his no-holds-barred polemics made him popular with Bangkok's poor and lower-middle-class voters, who elected him governor in 2001 with over 1 million votes, the largest number in the city's history. "He's a lower-middle-class hero," says historian...
Time (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... he praised the military junta in Burma as "good Buddhists" and called Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi a "tool of the West." Nonetheless, his no-holds-barred polemics made him popular with Bangkok's poor and lower-middle-class voters, who elected him governor in 2001 with over one million votes, the largest number in the city's history. "He's a lower middle class hero," says historian...
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... and ethnic nationalities on a shared vision for the future. ” This was followed up by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi now asking for a meeting with General Than Shwe. It is rather hilarious to witness that Prime Minister Thein Sein a messenger boy of Than Swe sat just four seats apart from President Obama at the US-ASEAN meeting and yet nothing concrete has come out. Even though Obama’s public demand...
