Burmese monks defy army warning (Protests in Burma).

BBC ^ | Tuesday, September 25, 2007.

[Think free or die]

Prayers for the brave monks and their supporters.

[Thudd]

"They call Aung San Suu Kyi "The Lady". Ordinary Burmese regard her with a reverence that the regime has never been able to reduce, despite regularly denouncing her — although rarely by name — as a tool of foreign powers. Instead, seeing a foreigner on the streets of Rangoon, people will discreetly approach, whisper "I like The Lady", and move on before they are seen holding a conversation. Miss Suu Kyi, 62, is the daughter of Aung San, Burma's assassinated independence hero, and grew up in Burma and India. She spent many years living as a housewife in Oxford, where Michael Aris, her husband, was a university don, until returning to Burma in 1988, where she co- founded the National League for Democracy. Two years later it won elections by a landslide, but has never been allowed to take power. She is the world's only detained Nobel peace prize laureate, having spent 12 of the last 17 years in various forms of custody, but has always insisted on non-violence as the way to "freedom from fear", the title of one of her books. "It is not power that corrupts but fear," she said. "Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those subject to it."

One of the greatest assets the Burmese people have going for them is this lady. She is a visable, personified icon of freedom that people will identify with. She doesn't even have to really do anything but exist at this point, but everyone knows who she is, and where she is, and the army can't do anything about it.

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ping

[LeoWindhorse]

I love daw Aung San Suu Kyi

[RightWhale]

Is this the Myanmar the Pres mentioned today at the UN?

[TigersEye]

A few months ago I just happened to see a movie about her and the events of the late 80's in Burma on cable TV. It was very good. This would be a good time for some cable channel to run it again. I expect they might be. Do you remember the name of it, Leo? I'm afraid I have forgotten it.

Thanks for the ping, pandy.

[TigersEye]

"It is not power that corrupts but fear," she said. "Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those subject to it."

Great wisdom in that. As the dharma teaches; abandon hope and fear.

[LeoWindhorse]

nope, but the movie ‘Beyond Rangoon’ is pretty good

Read her books !

[TigersEye]

That’s the movie. I guess it was more about the American doctor than Aung San Suu Kyi.

[LeoWindhorse]

ASSK ‘s character is featured however...
Someday , the story of her life would be an unbelievable movie ! Once the entire truth and story of it can be told.
It would beat the hell out of 99.9% of the crap movies they put out today.

But then people seem more interested in fantasy than reality

[AmericanInTokyo]

UPDATE! RANGOON!!

The military are moving in now, they have started the shooting (over their heads to disperse, not directly into the crowds, just YET), international reports are that (some) monks are being hit with sticks and poles--injury and arrest reports are coming in. There is some rifle firing. Military junta declared the monks and others marches as illegal, and also ordered an evening curfew.

It should be sunset in Burma in just a few hours. It is 6 a.m. Wednesday Eastern Time.

They may pull a Tiananmen after all, after dark.