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...AUNG SAN SUU KYI by Bono...
Whenever I visit Burma, I have a ritual: I look up a name in the Rangoon telephone book. Every year a new directory is published, but the listing remains "Aung San Suu Kyi, Daw," followed by Rangoon's most famous address "54 University Avenue" and a telephone number. The number never seems to work. When I tried it during my recent trip, the Nobel laureate and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) was enduring her third stint under house arrest since 1989. But seeing her celebrated name in the book always seems both extraordinary and reassuring...
...constitution. Yet the arrest, surveillance and intimidation of opposition figures continues, Amnesty International notes in a March 31 report, while as many as 1,400 political prisoners?many of whom should by rights participate in the convention?still languish in prison. Ambiguous public remarks by Burmese Foreign Minister Win Aung, followed by the release from house arrest of two senior NLD leaders last week, have raised hopes that Suu Kyi and party vice chairman Tin Oo will soon be freed, too. We'll see. The convention's success depends on much else besides. It is far from clear whether...
RELEASED. TIN OO, 77, vice chairman of Burma's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) and a key adviser to Noble Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi; from Kale Prison in Sagaing, northwest Burma. A Defense Minister in the mid-1970s before falling out with former dictator Ne Win, Tin Oo helped form the NLD in 1988. He was detained along with Suu Kyi and hundreds of other pro-democracy supporters after their convoy was attacked by government-backed thugs last May. Like Suu Kyi, he is now under house arrest in Rangoon...
...Bono for Aung San Suu Kyi The U2 frontman wrote the lyrics for the group's 2000 hit Walk On for the detained Burmese democracy activist. Sample: "You could have flown away/ A singing bird in an open cage/ Who will only fly for freedom... " Burma banned the album...