Happy Birthday Aung San Suu Kyi

A truly remarkable woman.

She has such stillness about her - her inner beauty shines out.

I agree, she does seem to be a very lovely person.
BTW, I didn't know DLT did a World Service programme!

If I have to be reincarnated, I'd like to please come back as Aung San Suu Kyi. So-called celebs, eat yer hearts out!

She is an amazing woman - can't believe she is 67. A worthy Peace Prize winner.

Don't know that DLT still does it, but he did then.
She was sharp as a knife when someone asked her why she did not condemn the conflict on Burmah's borders with a:
resolving conflict is not about condemning, it is about understanding.

Hmm. Perhaps wait and see what she actually does?

j04 - That statement shows she is already doing something.

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.

She is an example to us all!

Lovely lady!

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

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!

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

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.

J04...this lady is beautiful in nature.

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

Did we ever have a thread about Chen Guangcheng?

Who?

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

human rights activist who recently managed to leave China.

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

He's not pretty.

here

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!