Aung San Suu Kyi: BBC Interview (1/2) | November 15, 2010

In her first-ever TV interview after being released from seven years of house arrest, the leader of Burma's democracy movement and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace, AUNG SAN SUU KYI, lays out her experiences as she endured years of being imprisoned in her own home.

In this BBC Exclusive interview, Suu Kyi shares with BBC reporter John Simpson her aspirations for her people as she takes up the mantle of democratic struggle once again - doing so at great personal cost; as her husband, British academic Michael Aris, was repeatedly denied a visa to Burma by the military regime and was dying of cancer in 1999, she had to heartbreakingly choose to stay in Burma instead, fearing that is she left the country, she would not be allowed back.

Just a few weeks after her release, she has finally seen her younger son, Kim Aris, for the first time in more than a decade; she has never met one of two grandchildren.

Enduring imprisonment - whether in jail or in her crumbling villa in Central Rangoon for fifteen of the past twenty years, surviving at least one assassination attempt, perseverance in the midst of ever-increasing intimidation by the military rulers and her great personal sacrifices - all this, Aung San Suu Kyi did in the name of democracy.

Read more about the life of AUNG SAN SUU KYI by clicking the link below:
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php/burma/about-burma/about-burma/a-bio...

PilipinasMabuhay100 supports AUNG SAN SUU KYI and the Burmese People's fight for JUSTICE, FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY in Burma.

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[AndrewStergiou]

Another egotistical politician educated at elite institutions in the west, promoted time and time again by foreign intelligence of the CIA and MI6 for some post-military period as subversive of the insurgent left and true popular freedom, independence and expression so as to retain western influence.

[pilipinasmabuhay100]

@AndrewStergiou Too much time spent reading conspiracy books, I assume.

[robertsanga80]

It's really good to have viewed and listened Daw Aung San Suu Kyi interviewed! Thank you very much for uploading it. Keep doing great job!

[pilipinasmabuhay100]

@robertsanga80 It's an honor. :-) I'll upload Part 2 in a short while! :D

I'll send you the link as soon as it uploaded. =D

[NinoyAquinoTV]

It's great to know that her imprisonment did not diminish her wits and charm. The freedom-loving people of Burma still loves her after all these years!

Definitely a thumbs up! ;-)

[pilipinasmabuhay100]

@NinoyAquinoTV Don't her overseas fans like me! She is indeed a true inspiration for all freedom-loving people! :D

[gmpsyche]

She's one of the most charismatic leaders of Asia, next to Mahatma Gandhi.

Her conviction and bravery will forever inspire the Burmese people who sought real democracy in their country.

Myanmar people are very lucky to have a hero in her .

[HeadShotRebel]

what campaigns did she do?

[NormanArches]

Surely if the US and the UK in particular wanted to curry favour with the Burmese Junta, the easiest way for them to do it, rather than backing a sort of liberal democrat with a prison sentence pending, would have been to have done what they usually do with these sorts of animals and cut a cheap arms deal.....let me guess..........

[NormanArches]

I was expecting John Simpson to tell us he had liberated her.

[kzthant1979]

I don't want them to fall. I don’t want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Bravo!



[ned347]

i support her :)