Referred to by the Dalai Lama as his ‘little sister’ this Burmese freedom fighter has tirelessly worked for democracy in her country for the last 16 years…Danubyu, Myanmar. 5 April, 1989: two months before the Tiananmen Square massacre in nearby China.A woman walks down the middle of the street, accompanied by several men.Six soldiers of the State Law and Order Restoration Council – the junta which has crushed the democracy movement and killed thousands of people in Rangoon – order the group to stop. The group pays no heed. A young army captain whips out his revolver and jumps out of his jeep, ready to open fire.The woman asks the men to move aside. “It seemed so much simpler to provide them with a single target than to bring everyone else in,” she later explained.In the nick of time, a major intervenes, and asks the captain to hold his fire. The lady walks on.She is Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Iron Lady of Burma.The fearless daughter of General Aung San, the hero of Burma’s freedom struggle, Suu Kyi has for the past 16 years existed in a state of almost perpetual imprisonment – either in prison or under house… Read full this story
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