Aung San Suu Kyi: The Lady at 60
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Still imprisoned. Still fighting for democracy. Why the story of Aung
San Suu Kyi should haunt the conscience of the world
By Peter Popham
18 June 2005
Already the photographs have that deathly historical look of events
long ago and far away, of campaigns and triumphs that belong to another
era. The pictures of Burma's general election of 1990, the only time in
the past 45 years that the Burmese people have been given the
opportunity to vote, were reproduced in the May issue of the Burmese
opposition magazine Irrawaddy, published in Bangkok. They are
unbearably sad.
In longyi and white shirts, hair slick with oil, Burmese people young
and old crowd around the ballot boxes in the polling stations. A young
member of Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy
(NLD), flowers in her hair, smiles proudly before a romantic poster of
Suu Kyi, garlanded and beaming, striding into the radiant future with
the Burmese flag. In another picture Suu Kyi herself, petite, elegant
and composed, marches towards another podium, shadowed by soldiers with
automatic rifles.
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