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OSLO -The Nobel Peace Prize awards committee issued a rare public statement Friday to condemn the imprisonment of 1991 peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and to demand her immediate release.
The 63-year-old opposition leader was jailed on Thursday on charges of violating her house arrest. She has spent 13 of the past 19 years in [...]
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Suu Kyi insists she is innocent
Profile: Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma’s jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has insisted she is not guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest, her lawyer said.
He said Ms Suu Kyi was being held in a “guest room” at the top security Insein jail in Rangoon, [...]
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YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s jailed democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi insists she is not guilty of violating her house arrest, her lawyer said Friday, as a clearer picture emerged of the American who swam to her home and kicked off the junta’s latest crackdown.
Ahead of Suu Kyi’s trial Monday, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate spent [...]
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-Despite being the daughter of Myanmar’s independence hero, Gen. Aung San, who was assassinated when she was 2 years old, Aung San Suu Kyi fell into politics almost by accident:
— Born in Yangon, formerly Rangoon, on June 19, 1945.
— Earned degrees in philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University in England. Married [...]
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Wretched American’ May Ruin Hopes for House Arrest Release of …
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By The Staff at wowOwow.com Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, may have to spend even more time under house …
Western outcry over Suu Kyi case
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Western governments have condemned the “disturbing” [...]
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Note: Some news items about Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi can be read here.
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Beyond Rangoon: The Latest Setback for Aung San Suu Kyi
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By Ashby Jones Let’s journey half a world away and catch up on a very strange situation playing out in the southeast Asian country of Myanmar. …
Independent UN [...]
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IN THE FIELD: Burma’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with violating the terms of her house arrest after an American man swam across a lake to gain access to her compound, her lawyer said. Her trial has been set for May 18.
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Interview: Myanmar journalist Aung Zaw – 14 May 2009 – Al Jazeera -
Myanmar opposition leader charged 14 May 2009 – Al Jazeera -
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Myanmar democracy leader Suu Kyi facing trial
(CNN) — Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will stand trial Monday for an incident in which an American allegedly swam across a lake and stayed for two days in her closely guarded residence, where she is under house arrest.
The southeast Asian country’s military junta rarely [...]
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By Aung Hla Tun
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was charged on Thursday with breaking the terms of her house arrest and faces up to five years in jail after an American intruder sneaked into her lakeside home, her party said.
Opposition activists denounced her trial, set to begin on Monday, as [...]
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YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was charged Thursday with violating the terms of her house arrest after an American man swam across a lake to sneak into her home, her lawyer said.
Suu Kyi, whose latest detention period was set to end May 27, could face a prison term of up to [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 13th, 2009 No Comments »
By Daoud Kuttab
Daoud Kuttab, an award-winning Palestinian journalist, is Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.
Ramallah – As the summit between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu approaches, most of the discussion has focused on whether or not the newly elected Israeli leader will finally say that he backs a [...]
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By Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the first recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Albert O. Hirschman Prize. His latest book is One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth.
Cambridge – It may take a few months or a couple of [...]
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Declaration of the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
The EU expresses its strong concern following reports on the health of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League of Democracy and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and on the recent detention of her physician, Dr Tin Myo [...]