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...DETENTION EXTENDED. For Aung San Suu Kyi, 60, Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has spent 10 of the last 17 years under incarceration; in Rangoon. Despite calls from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan for Burma's military leaders "to do the right thing," the junta declined to release Suu Kyi on May 27, when her term of house arrest was set to expire...
...inspiration, especially for girls, who can believe that one day they can make it. Her election lifts a cloud. I'd also select Costa Rica's President, Oscar Arias Sánchez, who has pursued peace in his region, and Burmese opposition leader and jailed dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who is not breaking under pressure the rest of us will never have to face...
...nationwide speaking tour to raise awareness of human rights abuses in Burma, former political prisoner Ko Bo Kyi made his second-to-last stop at Harvard Law School on Friday. Bo Kyi, a former executive in the national student union, was imprisoned for a total of seven years for his pro-democracy protests and refusal to serve as a government informant. Bo Kyi spoke about the coerced interrogation and psychological torture that rendered many political prisoners permanently disabled. “There is no rule of law, no separation of power [in Burma],” said Bo Kyi...
...haired front man, he commands attention like no other cultural figure alive. When he visits Capitol Hill, his movement through the halls is split-timed. His lobbyists feed him tips so he knows, for instance, that Kentucky's Mitch McConnell has a thing for Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who inspired U2's song Walk On. The rest is intuitive. Bono arrives with no security, takes gifts (a leather-bound volume of Seamus Heaney for Patrick Leahy, a framed copy of the Marshall Plan speech for Colin Powell) to suit his host's taste...
With her own life in turmoil, Amy Tan was invited by friends in 2000 to accompany them to Burma. "Why not?" she thought. "It's a beautiful country. Great art, great culture. But then I started reading about the military junta, the human rights problems, Aung San Suu Kyi, the boycott. I could cancel the trip, but what good would that do? I could go, but would that do any good either? That led to the question of how any of us can make a difference. And how do we decide?" That led to Saving Fish from Drowning, the latest...