Posted on 09/25/2007 12:08:23 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu
Prayers for the brave monks and their supporters.
"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.
ping
I love daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Is this the Myanmar the Pres mentioned today at the UN?
Thanks for the ping, pandy.
Great wisdom in that. As the dharma teaches; abandon hope and fear.
nope, but the movie ‘Beyond Rangoon’ is pretty good
Read her books !
That’s the movie. I guess it was more about the American doctor than Aung San Suu Kyi.
But then people seem more interested in fantasy than reality
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.
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