Happy Birthday Aung San Suu Kyi

don't piss tech off at this stage let's hope it's done soon, then fingers crossed

Yes, I think GNHQ Techy should be reported for dereliction of duty!

The posts are still going across the page

That's true, absent. Mandela was never classified as a prisoner of conscience because he either sanctioned or initiated acts of sabotage although he never approved the taking of life. ASSK abhors acts of violence and hence has always been a prisoner of conscience.

Would you like to expand absent ?

JessM There is a difference about her detention and Mandela's; she wasn't a bomb maker.

I nearly started a thread about Chen Guangcheng but didn't think there would be much interest.

She has close links with UK because she studied at Oxford, married a British man and had 2 sons here.
Please feel welcome j to start any threads about which you feel strongly.
ASSK has, like Mandela, spent half her life under a form of detention because she stuck to her principles and what she felt was her primary duty. There were times when she could have given in and shipped out back to her family.
I don't think either Mandela or ASSK are prominent because they are good looking.

Not ignored her.

Also he was not as well known in the west because he had not travelled as ASSK had so not made influential contacts.
If ASSK was less physically attractive do you think the world would have ignored her j04?
CG is very personable too!

here

He's not pretty.

Ah yes! Know of him but didn't recognise the name! I'm afraid I'm not politically active !

action.amnesty.org.uk/ea-action/actionea.campaign.id=8256&ea.client.id=1194

human rights activist who recently managed to leave China.

Who?

Did we ever have a thread about Chen Guangcheng?

That sounds interesting Annobel. Why am I always awake and listening at the wrong time!

J04...this lady is beautiful in nature.

Probably not, jingl, but she isn't.

When I was awake for about quarter of an hour during the night, I put the radio on and heard an interview with a writer who has a book about ASSK coming out - The Lady and the Peacock. She has a fascinating family history. Her father was a democracy activist who was assassinated. There was a lot about the cultural attitudes of the Burmese people who were, like the Thais, used to having a king who was the figurehead of government. The British got rid of the king and tried to convert the people to a western model which didn't work and eventually resulted in a military dictatorship. It's strange to think that if they had been allowed to keep their monarchy, they might never have had the military government and could have been more like the Thais who, although they have had their problems in recent years, have never had the massacres perpetrated by the Burmese military.

Would everyone feel the same if she like, say, Angela Merckle?

She put the ITV news woman in her place last night didn't she, when she asked about her sons.
Journalist trying to draw her into human interest territory. ASSK replied that she had never seen the need to apologise to her sons - they were extremely fortunate compared to many young people in Burmah. That told her!

An amazing woman -and so beautiful and articulate.
Yes soop l would like to be reincarnated as Aung-San-Suu-Kyi

Lovely lady!

She is an example to us all!

Arguably by quietly and peacefully prevailing and never encouraging her followers to violence she has brought Burma to a more democratic state, without major bloodshed. No mean feat when there's a mean military junta running the country.
There were times when she could have left, come back to her family in Oxford, but no, she stuck it out because she knew people looked to her for leadership.
I heard some of her Reith lectures - talking, amongst other things, about how she took 'keep fit" exercises seriously.