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...AWARDED. AUNG SAN SUU KYI, 57, Burmese opposition leader; the $1 million Free Spirit prize by the U.S.-based Freedom Forum foundation for fighting for democracy in military-ruled Burma; in Rangoon. It is the first time that the full $1 million has been granted to a single person. Freedom Forum officials who visited Suu Kyi said they could transfer the money to her, but did not explain how. Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, was released last May after 19 months of house arrest...
Other highlights in Kim's career include, according to some defectors, masterminding a failed 1983 hit in Rangoon on South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan and the bombing of a South Korean jetliner that killed 115 people. Hwang Jang Yop, once Pyongyang's chief propagandist and the most senior North Korean official to defect, says Kim terrorizes his own countrymen as well. Hwang depicts Kim as touchy, paranoid and vindictive and says he dispatches those who cross him to grim concentration camps...
...DIED. NE WIN, 91, former military dictator of Burma who isolated the country and led it to economic ruin; while under house arrest in Rangoon. Ne Win ruled Burma from...
...year activist. In 1996, inspired by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's book Freedom from Fear, he hooks up with a refugee group in Burma, where he teaches English. Soon he hungers for a direct confrontation with the regime. After his one-man protest in Rangoon is broken up (it consists of Mawdsley locking himself to a gate and shouting democratic slogans while blasting the film soundtrack to The Mission), he decides that he will return with the intent of going to prison. He shrugs off conventional activism. "The powerfully written reports by NGOS and the sensationalist press?they...
...ambivalence, however, is wiped away by a religious experience, and he is no sooner released than he is booking his return ticket. Detained after protesting in Rangoon again in 1999, he is sentenced to 17 years and transferred to a solitary cell. While his family and friends orchestrate a campaign to draw attention to his cause, a motivated Mawdsley makes life hell for prison officials, demanding books, exercise time, a radio, everything but HBO. True, his demands are his chief means of challenging the corrupt regime, but there aren't many works of prison literature that can trigger...