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About Me


Free Aung San Suu Kyi!
LET'S USE MY SPACE TO TOPPLE A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP!!!!!
- we can if we believe we can!

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Aung San Suu Kyi is now in her eleventh year of detention. She isn't allowed to see family or friends as all visitors are banned. Her phone line is cut and her post is intercepted.
Aung San Suu Kyi is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), and a noted prisoner of conscience. A devout Buddhist, Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and in 1991 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a repressive military dictatorship.
"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

*People who will use their freedom to fight for the freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma.

*People who'll boycott companies who put profit over principles and do business with the dictators in Burma.

*People who'll give 2 minutes out of their life to write an email asking for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and more than 1,100 political prisoners in Burma, who routinely face physical, mental and sexual torture.

*People who'll lobby their governments to santion Burma.

*People who'll pester their friends to do the same.

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Music:

In 1997, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter named a song after her, on their duet album, 1 + 1.In 2001, Irish rock band U2 released the single "Walk On", which was written about and dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi. The multi-artist 2004 compilation album For the Lady, which features "Walk On", was banned by the junta.[10] During Vertigo Tour concerts in London and Glasgow (June 19 and June 21 2005 respectively), U2 dedicated performances of "Running to Stand Still" to Aung San Suu Kyi. Other artists such as Coldplay, R.E.M., and Damien Rice have also publicly supported Aung San Suu Kyi's cause.In 2003's MTV Europe Music Awards, she was given the "Free Your Mind" award.

Movies:

Aung San Suu Kyi is featured prominently in John Boorman's 1995 film Beyond Rangoon, starring Patricia Arquette.

Heroes:

In a list compiled by the magazine New Statesman in 2006, she was voted as the number one "Hero of our time"