Word: aung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speaking through interpreter Aung Naing Oo, secretary of the ASBDF, Zun detailed human rights violations by the Burmese military regime and discussed his organization's fight for democracy...
Nonetheless, for most of the women who had come from far corners of the earth to express their solidarity, even a damp sojourn under a heavy official hand proved exhilarating. If Clinton did not impress a delegate, perhaps Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto did, or Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who appeared in a specially recorded videotape that was smuggled out of Rangoon...
...history of Myanmar, as Burma is now called, resonates with melodrama and tragedy. The heroic battle of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for her nonviolent resistance against the ruling junta, is surely worth a movie. But in Hollywood the problems of one little country--or one big country with little brown people--don't amount to a hill of unsold scripts. The Burmese must have a Caucasian mediator, Laura, whose sufferings illuminate those of the locals...
...everyone. But Laura has not recovered from a personal trauma back home, and when her group leaves she just...stays there. It's a pretty region--like the Mekong Delta in the mid-'60s. Now if only she can find an escort. Why, here's an amiable native (U Aung Ko). "Hello," he says, in effect, "I'm an illegal guide in a military dictatorship, and I'd like to plop you into a genocidal civil war." "Hello," she virtually replies, "I'm a shell-shocked ninny...
...Aung San Suu Kyi undoubtedly was Burma's most prominent political prisoner, but there are thousands more being held in jails there. No Burmese is exempt from being dragooned into acting as porter for soldiers, and for those in the rural and ethnic areas it has become a way of life. The release of Suu Kyi is a hopeful step in the political liberalization of Burma. In her the generals who rule the country have the best chance of coming to peace with the Burmese people. SAMUEL LIN Hong Kong...