There are moments in life, where silence is a sin and talk becomes an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative to which we can not steal.
Vi sono momenti, nella Vita, in cui tacere diventa una colpa e parlare diventa un obbligo. Un dovere civile, una sfida morale, un imperativo categorico al quale non ci si può sottrarre.
Oriana Fallaci
SAVE BURMA
Aung San Suu Kyi born 19 June 1945 in Rangoon, is a pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, and a noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent resistance. Aung San Suu Kyi was the third child in her family. Her name "Aung San" derives from her father, "Kyi" from her mother and "Suu" from her grandmother. Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992 she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru peace prize by the Government of India for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship. She is currently under detention, with the Burmese junta repeatedly extending her detention. According to the results of the 1990 general election, Suu Kyi earned the right to be Prime Minister, as leader of the winning National League for Democracy party, but her detention by the military junta prevented her from assuming that role.
Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar. The country achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 4 January 1948, as the Union of Burma. It became the "Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma" on 4 January 1974, before reverting to the "Union of Burma" on 23 September 1988. On 18 June 1989, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SPDC) adopted the name "Union of Myanmar". This controversial name change was not recognized by SPDC opposition groups and many English-speaking nations.
Aung San Suu Kyi (Rangoon, 19 giugno 1945) è una politica birmana, attiva nella difesa dei diritti umani.
Sin da giovane si impone nella scena nazionale del suo paese, devastato da una pesante dittatura militare, come una leader del movimento non-violento, tanto da meritare i premi Rafto e Sakharov, prima di essere insignita del premio Nobel per la pace nel 1991.Recentemente il nuovo Premier inglese Gordon Brown ne ha tratteggiato il ritratto nel suo volume "Eight Portraits" come modello di coraggio civico per la libertà .