Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi, AC (Burmese: အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်; MLCTS: aung hcan: cu. krany, /aʊŋˌsæn.suːˈtʃiː/,Burmese pronunciation: [àʊɴ sʰáɴ sṵ tɕì]; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese Social Democratic stateswoman, politician and president of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar. In the 1990 general election, the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010, becoming one of the world's most prominent political prisoners.

Suu Kyi received the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992, she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding by the government of India and the International Simón Bolívar Prize from the government of Venezuela. In 2012, the Government of Pakistan awarded her the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Award For Democracy. In 2007, the Government of Canada made her an honorary citizen of that country, the fourth person ever to receive the honour. In 2011, she was awarded the Wallenberg Medal. On 19 September 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi was also presented with the Congressional Gold Medal, which is, along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in the United States.

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Myanmar strive for movie dvelopment towards int'l standard

Xinhua 25 Mar 2019

State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi also told the Myanmar motion picture community to vaule their creation and to show their efforts towards raising their standard ... As some three movies, three series and a short story were made in Nay Pyi Taw, the capital of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi ......

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Letter From America: Speaking Truth to Power – the case of Ilhan Omar

Asian Tribune 25 Mar 2019

News Comments. // ... They like to conceal the truth ... Sadly, the record of the so-called liberal democracies of the West is not better ... S. Congress ... Thanks to the leaders like Trump, Modi, Netanyahu, Xi Jinping, Suu Kyi, MBS and many others, our world is going through a major crisis where hatred and intolerance against minorities are becoming the new norms....

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'On The Inside Of A Military Dictatorship': CPH:DOX Review

Screen Daily 24 Mar 2019

Politically engaged audiences should connect with the film but may be disappointed by the lack of any fresh sizzle and its generally sympathetic attitude towards Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.  ... Poulsen is certainly not uncritical of Aung San Suu Kyi....

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Myanmar state counselor calls for upgrading local movie industry

Xinhua 23 Mar 2019

YANGON, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi called for active cooperation of government and artists to upgrade local movie industry to enter the ......

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Former Blackwater contractor in Myanmar security venture

This is Money 21 Mar 2019

Erik Prince was the co-founder of private security firm Blackwater which played a controversial role in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ... A company spokesman confirmed it was now also operating in Myanmar ... Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi wants to attract investment to Rakhine, one of the poorest states in the country ... ....

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4 More Countries Added To Bush's Axis Of Evil

Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019

Rice names 'Outposts of Tyranny'. By MARJORIE OLSTER ... attention ... A look at U.S. tensions with the countries Rice named.. BELARUS ... 4 ... Washington has criticized the regime for failing to surrender power in 1990 to the democratically elected party of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who has repeatedly been put under house arrest....

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The Right of Civil Resistance to Prevent State Crimes

Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019

by Francis A. Boyle ... This is not simply a question of giving or withholding the benefit of the doubt when it comes to complicated matters of foreign affairs and defense policies to a U.S ... government's foreign policy ... Gulf War I ... Dr ... ... Camilo Mejia are America's equivalent to Vaclav Havel, Andrei Sakharov, Wei Jingsheng, Aung San Suu Kyi, and others ... HOME....

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My Last Conversation With Aung San Suu Kyi

Information Clearing House 19 Mar 2019

10/04/07 "ICH" ---- As the people of Burma rise up again, we have had a rare sighting of Aung San Suu Kyi ... Aung San Suu Kyi wore silk and had orchids in her hair ... "Well, if you can't manage the whole thing, friends call me Suu." ... ... For several years after that encounter with Aung San Suu Kyi I tried to phone the number she gave me....

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Freedom Writ Large

Information Clearing House 19 Mar 2019

I had planned tonight to read from my last interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, but I decided not to – because of something Suu Kyi said to me when I last spoke to her ... We owe that vigilance and that truth to Aung San Suu Kyi, to Burma's writers and to all the other bravest of the brave....

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Burma, Victim Of The "War On Terror"

Information Clearing House 19 Mar 2019

When I phoned Aung San Suu Kyi's home in Rangoon yesterday, I imagined the path to her door that looks down on Inya Lake ... It consumes most humanitarian aid indirectly and the very internationalism capable of bringing the "clever" pressure on Burma, about which Aung San Suu Kyi once spoke....

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Peace march kicks up more war in Myanmar

Asiatimes 19 Mar 2019

The NCA, launched by Myanmar’s then president Thein Sein in October 2015 and now pursued by the elected government led by ex-opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, is a misnomer as it only includes a small number of the country’s many ethnic armed groups ... Aung San Suu Kyi (C) in a ......

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Chevron's Pipeline

Information Clearing House 19 Mar 2019

The Burmese Regime's Lifeline. By Amy Goodman ... The image was stunning ... The monks marched in front of the home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who was seen weeping and praying quietly as they passed. She hadn't been seen for years. The democratically elected leader of Burma, Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since 2003 ... Rice knows it well....

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Pro-Democracy Means Anti-Fascism

Information Clearing House 19 Mar 2019

Of course the present state of our nation is not as overtly oppressive as the government of Myanmar (Burma), presently where a Nobel Peace Laureate Aung Sang Suu Kyi has been under house arrest there for years, but we who have been paying attention to events can see that America ......