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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civil rights and when we paraded through the streets of America to stop the war in Vietnam. Our passionate commitment, nonviolent activism, willingness to accept punishment for civil disobedience were lessons he taught. Martin Luther King Jr. learned them; so did Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, Aung San Suu Kyi, the unknown Chinese who defied the tanks in 1989 and the environmental marchers in Seattle a few weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Myanmar: Aung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Children Of Gandhi | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

DIED. MICHAEL ARIS, 53, husband of 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the leading dissident of Myanmar, formerly Burma; of prostate cancer; in Oxford. Myanmar's military junta refused to allow the dying Aris to visit his wife, whom he had not seen since 1995. Fearful the junta would bar her return, she chose not to leave her country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...late 1996. The military junta of Burma--now officially known as Myanmar--hit upon a way to exploit further the country it has controlled since 1962: Western tourism. This government rules despite a popular election in 1990 in which the National League for Democracy, headed by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung Sun Suu Kyi, won 82 percent of the seats in the national assembly...

Author: By David S. Grewal, | Title: Let's Not Go Myanmar | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...Aung Sun Suu Kyi has explicitly asked tourists not to visit a military-controlled Burma. Do the editors of Let's Go feel they have a deeper grasp on the social and political situation in the Burma than its elected, imprisoned leader...

Author: By David S. Grewal, | Title: Let's Not Go Myanmar | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

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