Word: aung
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...more than happy about the release of Burma's chief dissident, Aung San Suu Kyi, after six years of house arrest [BURMA, July 24]. She is the only person who can bring peace to Burma. With her humanitarianism, intellect and Buddhist gentleness, she brings a hitherto unseen sophistication to the politics of her country. The people of Burma deserve a better future. I only hope they will have the patience that will be needed for change. LINDA SCHWARTZ Adliswil, Germany...
Freedom, as Flannery O'Connor wrote, cannot be conceived simply. Few could understand this better than Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's chief dissident and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Placed under house arrest by a military junta in 1989, Suu Kyi spent six years confined to her family's deteriorating lakeside bungalow in Rangoon. At any time, she was free to join her husband and two children in London -- knowing that the generals would never allow her back. That was a definition of freedom she refused to accept. When the junta abruptly announced last week that...
...nation for all of us to work together? I certainly hope it is the latter, but only time will tell." At the same time, she has been painstakingly cautious in her statements. She confessed to a natural affinity for the military because her father, Burmese nationalist hero Aung San, was a general. Her charm offensive was extraordinary -- but how will the junta react when the iron-willed Suu Kyi starts speaking more freely? "They have been known to misjudge the situation very badly," says Zunetta Liddell, a researcher for Human Rights Watch/Asia in London, "and I think they may have...
...free to travel? To take up her democratic campaign -- or, indeed, the mandate given to her by the Burmese people in 1990? That's almost certainly not the kind of freedom handed to her by the 21-general junta last week. The only thing that's sure is that Aung San Suu Kyi cannot conceive of freedom simply -- and the fate of her country may depend on her subtlety...
...AUNG SAN SUU KYI Wins six-year standoff as Burmese generals end her house arrest...