Carlos - Aung San Sui Kyi
http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/assk/assk.html: Go to the Web site. Click on “View a short picture tour.” You will then see several pictures. Each shows her and other people in her life and talks about what she has done. When you have read them all, summarize what you have read. Be sure to answer the question, What did she do to receive the Nobel Peace Prize? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1950505.stm: Look up the words “arrest” (noun) and “detention” in a dictionary. Then go to the Web site. Look up the information about all the times she was put under house arrest, or was in detention. How long did she suffer these things? Why did this happen to her? http://www.amot.gs.hm.no/engelsk/archive/2000_2001/eschola/nobel/ (video): Click on the picture of Ms. Kyi. You will then see her face and will hear her speak. Listen carefully to what she says. Then answer these questions: 1. Why does she think getting democracy in Burma is so important? How can it help people to live better lives? 2. What help does Burma need from other nations to make democracy happen for them? http://www.dassk.org/contents.php?id=74: Go to the Web site. Then answer these questions: 1. What are the main elements (or important parts) of what Ms. Kyi wants to accomplish? 2. How did Mahatma Gandhi inspire her? 3. How important to her has her Buddhist faith been? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/897897.stm: Go to the Web site and answer these questions: 1. Why have Ms. Kai and the other members of the NDL (National League for Democracy) camped in their cars? 2. What other groups have supported these people?
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2005
Carlos - Aung San Sui Kyi
http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/assk/assk.html: Go to the Web site. Click on “View a short picture tour.” You will then see several pictures. Each shows her and other people in her life and talks about what she has done. When you have read them all, summarize what you have read. Be sure to answer the question, What did she do to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
Aung San Sui Kyi received the novel prize in 1991. She has won numerous awards and honors, such as the Rafto Human Rights Prize and the Sakhorov Prize. She is also the general secretary and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy. Originally from Burma, this women was the daughter of Aung San, one of the greatest leaders of Burma who led his country obtain the independence from Great Britain in the 1940s, and was killed because of his ideals and beliefs. Aung San Sui Kyi was a great hero for her country as well as her father, and she was cited by the Nobel committee as “one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades”.
She grew up in Burma and was educated in a catholic school. Then she moved to India when she was a teenager with her mother that was appointed as Burmese ambassador to India. Later on, she went to England to attend Oxford University. There she met her future husband Michael Aris. In 1988 Sui Kyi received a call from Burma that her mother had suffered a stroke and was near to death. She went right away to Burma, leaving her family back in England. At the time she arrived to Burma there were several pro-democratic movements going on in the country. Sui Kyi could not be indifferent to all these movements that were taking place at the time therefore she started supporting her country’s struggle for democracy and Human Rights on august 26, 1988. She traveled all over the country, giving speeches that really motivated thousand of people. She obtained the loved of the people in Burma in that time of difficulties in the country. Sui Kyi was put under house arrest because of her demonstration against the socialist government.
In 1990 there were elections in the country which she won with 80% of the support of the people in the country, but the government did not recognize the results and she was put under house arrest again.
In spite of the fact that she was restricted by the house arrest, she continued campaigning for democracy and for this she won the novel prize in 1991.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1950505.stm: Look up the words “arrest” (noun) and “detention” in a dictionary. Then go to the Web site. Look up the information about all the times she was put under house arrest, or was in detention. How long did she suffer these things? Why did this happen to her?
Arrest: To seize and hold under the authority of law. The act of detaining in legal custody.
Detention: The state or a period of being detained, especially:
a. A period of temporary custody while awaiting trial.
b. A period of confinement to a detention home.
c. A form of punishment by which a student is made to stay after regular school hours.
Aung San Sui Kyi has been put under house arrest three times. First of all, when she went back to Burma, she was put under house arrest in Rangoon for six years, until she was released in July 1995. She was again put under house arrest in September 2000 and released in May 2002, and finally in September 2003 she was sent to her house again under house arrest.
Sui Kyi has been suffering for nine of the past 15 years because of her detention under Burma's military regime. Basicly, This happened to her because her strong opposition to the socialist government and because of all the speeches she was giving all over the country. When she was put under house arrest in September 2000, was because she tried to travel to the city of Mandalay without the permission of the authorities, and she was not allowed to do that.
http://www.amot.gs.hm.no/engelsk/archive/2000_2001/eschola/nobel/ (video): Click on the picture of Ms. Kyi. You will then see her face and will hear her speak. Listen carefully to what she says. Then answer these questions: 1. Why does she think getting democracy in Burma is so important? How can it help people to live better lives? 2. What help does Burma need from other nations to make democracy happen for them?
Aung San Sui Kyi thinks getting democracy in Burma is really important. She believes democracy is the only system that ensures Human Rights. She also believes that humanity is capable of progres, and democracy is a system that alouds people to reach development. Most of the world has adopt this system because history has shown that there is not a better system than democracy. The other systems have failed in the past. Dictatorship is the principal reason of all the sorrow of the people in Burma, and she asks for help in the entire world to overcome all the problems in Burma and stablish democracy. A nation in where Human Rights are not guaranteed cannot improve, and the adoption of democracy would help people to live better lives and give the freedom, dignity, fearness, and rights that all the citizen in Burma deserve.
Sui Kyi tells the world to recognize that the people in Burma have decided they want democracy therefore, they need the unconditionally help from the other countries in order to achieve the dream of this nation, and to contribute to reach peace in the world.
http://www.dassk.org/contents.php?id=74: Go to the Web site. Then answer these questions: 1. What are the main elements (or important parts) of what Ms. Kyi wants to accomplish? 2. How did Mahatma Gandhi inspire her? 3. How important to her has her Buddhist faith been?
Aung San Sui Kyi has spent most of her life seeking reconciliation and democracy for her country. With this vision she has inspired thousand of people that believe in her dream that pursuit the happiness for the people of her country and the accomplishment of a fear and pleasant living within the citizens of Burma. The most important elements of her actions are: democracy, respect for human rights, reconciliation between groups, non-violence, and personal and collective discipline.
Mahatma Gandhi represented the basic inspiration for Suu Kyi. When she was in India where her mother was ambassador, she learned important values and ideals that she absorbed and applied for the rest of her life. One of the most important values Suu Kyi adopted from Gandhi was her commitment to nonviolence.
Sui Kyi’s Buddhist faith has also been essential for her determination seeking her dreams, and has impacted most of her actions. Within her faith, one can understand why she has such strong beliefs in Human Rights. In order to accomplish all her dreams, she has had to be fearless, and her faith has been the principal factor that has build her courageous personality.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/897897.stm: Go to the Web site and answer these questions: 1. Why have Ms. Kai and the other members of the NDL (National League for Democracy) camped in their cars? 2. What other groups have supported these people?
Aung San Sui Kyi had been campaigning in her car with other members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) because they wanted to demonstrate that the opposition had the right to travel all over the country without the consent of the government. This was a basic democratic right they all should have had. Even though Sui Kyi had been stopped by the police and was told to return home, she kept campaigning and trying to meet more supporters.
Sui Kyi and her people has been supported by The United States, Britain, the European Union and Amnesty International. They all have expressed their preoccupation about Ms Sui Kyi’s life and basic rights as a human being.
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