Word: kyi
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Despite more than two years of house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi casts a bigger shadow than ever over the repressive rulers of Burma. The official presentation of her Nobel Peace Prize to her son last week triggered demonstrations and renewed calls abroad for the generals to hand over power to the parliament that was elected last year...
...overnight curfew ended, a squad of soldiers lifted barbed-wire barricades from the middle of Rangoon's tree-lined University Avenue. Then they took up positions, as they do every day, at four sentry boxes in front of the residential compound where Aung San Suu Kyi, 46, the leader of Burma's democratic opposition, has been under house arrest since July...
Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said last week that they could not be sure that Aung San Suu Kyi even knew she had been awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. But if she has access to a shortwave radio, she would have learned the news from overseas without delay. As the head of an opposition using "nonviolent means to resist a regime characterized by brutality," read the Nobel citation, Aung San Suu Kyi has become "one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades." Within hours much of Burma -- which the ruling junta...
...Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, the Peace Prize was the first major morale booster in more than a year. Although she was already under house arrest at the time, her party won a landslide victory in the May 1990 parliamentary elections, taking 392 of the 485 seats. But the generals refused to surrender power. Instead they arrested scores of elected parliamentarians and hundreds of Buddhist monks...
...prize, which includes a gold medal and about $1 million, will be presented in Oslo in December, but Aung San Suu Kyi is not likely to be there. The junta has told her she can leave the country only if she agrees never to return, a condition she flatly refuses. Like other foes of injustice, whose efforts take place far off the world's stage, she cannot know what the outcome of her struggle will...