Word: kyi
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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...
Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi...
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...
...Hrushevs'Kyi Professor of Ukrainian History Roman Szporluk, who teaches History 1515: "States and Nations: 1905-1991," agrees that ethnic groups should generally not be allowed to secede from a nation, but adds there are some instances in which a break-up is better...
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...