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Une Révolution Des Consciences: Discours D'aung San Suu Kyi, 9 Juillet 1990. Suivi De Appeler Le Peuple À La Lutte Ouverte: Discours De Léon Trotsky Prononcé Lors De Son Procès, 4 Octobre 1906

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Deux appels à la révolution et à la lutte contre l'oppression.

64 pages, Pocket Book

First published January 1, 2010

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Aung San Suu Kyi

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Burmese political leader Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Prize of 1991 for peace for her work, promoting democracy in her country.

Khin Kyi, a prominent diplomat, bore this opposition daughter of Myanmar to Aung San, a martyred national hero of independence.

Someone assassinated Aung San, her father, then the shortly independent prime minister de facto and father of Aung San Suu Kyi, his daughter of two years. She attended schools until 1960, when people appointed her mother as ambassador to India. After further study in India, she attended the University of Oxford, where she met her future husband.

With two children, she lived a rather quiet life until 1988 and then returned to nurse her dying mother. The brutal military strongman Ne Win ruled and slaughtered masses of protesters; she spoke and began a nonviolent struggle for human rights. In July 1989, the military government of the newly named Union of Myanmar placed Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest and held her incommunicado. If she agreed to leave Myanmar, then the military offered to free her, but she refused until civilian government returned and freed prisoners. The newly formed group, the national league, affiliated her and won more than four-fifths of the contested parliamentary seats in 1990, but the military government ignored the results of that election.

From house arrest, people freed Aung San Suu Kyi in July 1995. In the following year, she attended the party congress of the national league, but the military government continued to harass her. In 1998, she announced the formation of a representative committee and declared it as the legitimate ruling parliament.

From September 2000, the military junta once again placed Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest to May 2002. Following clashes between the national league and demonstrators in 2003, the government returned her to house arrest.

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'There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance and fear.'
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