Aung San Suu Kyi is Free!!

Aung San Suu Kyi is a political activist in Burma who has been under house arrest for the past seven years was freed yesterday by the government of Burma.  Below are several articles about the situation.  Burma has been ruled by military juntas since the sixties.  In 1997 Aung San Suu Kyi founded the National League for Democracy calling for nonviolence and civil disobedience.  Aung San Suu Kyi has been working to bring democracy to Burma and more freedom for the people.  She wishes to meet with the leaders of Burma and talk bringing more freedom to the country.

The U.N, and groups like Amnesty International have been working for many years to free Aung San Suu Kyi.  She has urged the people of Burma to work with her saying that she can't do it alone. "
"I'm not going to be able to do it alone," Suu Kyi said. "You've got to do it with me. One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing change and democracy to a country."  She does wish to work together with the government to bring change saying, "
“I’m going to work for national reconciliation. That is a very important thing,” she said, adding: “There is nobody I cannot talk to. I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.”

Hopefully her releasal signals a better day and brighter future for the people of Burma, a better day with more freedom for the people.

To check out a history of Burma go to, http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/03/myanmar.timeline.elections/index.html

To check out Amnesty International, a group dedicated to increase awarness of human rights violations around the world and protect human rights around the world check out their website at,
http://www.amnestyusa.org/index.html.  Search by country or issue, find out what you can do to make a difference in the world, write letters, there is a whole bunch of stuff to do, so check them out!







Sources/Articles To Read

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/14/aung-san-suu-kyi-burma-junta

• http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/14/myanmar.suu.kyi.speech/index.html?eref=rss_world&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_world+%28RSS%3A+World%29

• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/world/asia/15myanmar.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

• http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/myanmar.suu.kyi/index.html

• http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/myanmar.suu.kyi.profile/index.html