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What They’re Saying about Suu Kyi’s Detention

The Burmese regime’s decision to incarcerate democratic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon’s notorious Insein Prison as she faces charges of allowing an American intruder to stay overnight at her lakeside home has provoked a strong outcry. Below is a sampling of some of the statements coming from foreign governments and others in reaction to the junta’s latest attempt to sideline the democracy icon.

"It is perhaps the best thing that Asean can do or the regional grouping will miss a vital opportunity, and stay a mere talkshop forever,"
—Sunai Phasuk, Thai representative of Human Rights Watch

"Asean has long been wary of criticizing Burma and rather been embarrassed when calling for Burmese political reform. Thailand as the first chairman under the newly enacted Asean charter has already missed the opportunity to do more. We have been distracted by our own political wrangling at home. Thailand seems toothless on diplomacy during our round of the chairmanship"
—Surachart Bamrungsuk, Chulalongkorn University associate professor of political science

"After hearing the news that Nobel Peace Prize winner and European Parliament Sakharov Prize Aun San Suu Kyi has been accused of breaching the conditions of her detention under house arrest and taken to prison, I strongly call on the Burmese authorities to immediately release her without further delay or conditions."
—Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament

"He’s a very peace-loving person, well-meaning, forgiving, mild-mannered. He meant the very best for her."
—Betty Yettaw, wife of John William Yettaw

Aung San Suu Kyi
The Nobel Peace Prize 1991
Biography
1942: September 6. Marriage of Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army, and Ma Khin Kyi (becoming Daw Khin Kyi), senior nurse of Rangoon General Hospital, where he had recovered from the rigours of the march into Burma.

1945: June 19. Aung San Suu Kyi born in Rangoon, third child in family. "Aung San" for father, "Kyi" for mother, "Suu" for grandmother, also day of week of birth. Favourite brother is to drown tragically at an early age. The older brother, will settle in San Diego, California, becoming United States citizen.

1947: July 19. General Aung San assassinated. Suu Kyi is two years old. Daw Khin Kyi becomes a prominent public figure, heading social planning and social policy bodies.

1948: January 4. The Independent Union of Burma is established.

1960: Daw Khin Kyi appointed Burma's ambassador to India. Suu Kyi accompanies mother to New Delhi.

1960-64: Suu Kyi at high school and Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi.

1964-67: Oxford University, B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics at St. Hugh's College (elected Honorary Fellow, 1990). British "parents" are Lord Gore-Booth, former British ambassador to Burma and High Commissioner in India, and his wife, at whose home Suu Kyi meets Michael Aris, student of Tibetan civilisation.

1969-71: She goes to New York for graduate study, staying with family friend Ma Than E, staff member at the United Nations, where U. Thant of Burma is Secretary-General. Postponing studies, Suu Kyi joins U.N. secretariat as Assistant Secretary, Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions. Evenings and weekends volunteers at hospital, helping indigent patients in programs of reading and companionship.

1972: January 1. Marries Michael Aris, joins him in Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, where he tutors royal family and heads Translation Department. She becomes Research Officer in the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1973: They return to England for birth of Alexander in London.

1974: Michael assumes appointment in Tibetan and Himalayan studies at Oxford University.

1977: Birth of second son, Kim at Oxford. While raising her children, Suu Kyi begins writing, researches for biography of father, and assists Michael in Himalayan studies.

1984: Publishes Aung San in Leaders of Asia series of University of Queensland Press. (See Freedom from Fear, pp. 3-38.)

1985: For juvenile readers publishes Let's Visit Burma (see Freedom from Fear, pp. 39-81), also books on Nepal and Bhutan in same series for Burke Publishing Company, London.

1985-86: Visiting Scholar, Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, researching father's time in Japan. Kim with her, Alexander with Michael, who has fellowship at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies at Simla in northern India.

1986: On annual visit to grandmother in Rangoon, Alexander and Kim take part in traditional Buddhist ceremony of initiation into monkhood.

1987: With fellowship at Indian Institute Suu Kyi, with Kim, joins Michael and Alexander in Simla. Travels to London when mother is there for cataract surgery. Publishes "Socio-Political Currents in Burmese Literature, 1910-1940" in journal of Tokyo University. (See Freedom from Fear, pp. 140-164.) September. Family returns to Oxford. Suu Kyi enrolls at London School of Oriental and African Studies to work on advanced degree.

1988: March 31. Informed by telephone of mother's severe stroke, she takes plane next day to Rangoon to help care for Daw Khin Kyi at hospital, then moves her to family home on University Avenue next to Inya Lake in Rangoon. July 23. Resignation of General Ne Win, since 1962 military dictator of Burma. Popular demonstrations of protest continuing. August 8. Mass uprising throughout country. Violent suppression by military kills thousands.
August 15. Suu Kyi, in first political action, sends open letter to government, asking for formation of independent consultative committee to prepare multi-party elections.
August 26. In first public speech, she addresses several hundred thousand people outside Shwedagon Pagoda, calling for democratic government. Michael and her two sons are there.
September 18. Military establishes State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). Political gatherings of more than four persons banned. Arrests and sentencing without trial reaffirmed. Parliamentary elections to be held, but in expectation that multiplicity of parties will prevent clear result. September 24. National League for Democracy (NLD) formed, with Suu Kyi general-secretary. Policy of non-violence and civil disobedience. October-December. Defying ban, Suu Kyi makes speech-making tour throughout country to large audiences.
December 27. Daw Khin Kyi dies at age of seventy-six.

1989: January 2. Funeral of Daw Khin Kyi. Huge funeral procession. Suu Kyi vows that as her father and mother had served the people of Burma, so too would she, even unto death.
January-July. Suu Kyi continues campaign despite harassment, arrests and killings by soldiers.
February 17. Suu Kyi prohibited from standing for election.
April 5. Incident in Irawaddy Delta when Suu Kyi courageously walks toward rifles soldiers are aiming at her.
July 20. Suu Kyi placed under house arrest, without charge or trial. Sons already with her. Michael flies to Rangoon, finds her on third day of hunger strike, asking to be sent to prison to join students arrested at her home. Ends strike when good treatment of students is promised.

1990: May 27. Despite detention of Suu Kyi, NLD wins election with 82% of parliamentary seats. SLORC refuses to recognise results. October 12. Suu Kyi granted 1990 Rafto Human Rights Prize.

1991: July 10. European Parliament awards Suu Kyi Sakharov human rights prize.
October 14. Norwegian Nobel Committee announces Suu Kyi is winner of 1991 Peace Prize.

1991: December. Freedom from Fear published by Penguin in New York, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Also in Norwegian, French, Spanish translations.
December 10. Alexander and Kim accept prize for mother in Oslo ceremony. Suu Kyi remains in detention, having rejected offer to free her if she will leave Burma and withdraw from politics. Worldwide appeal growing for her release.

1992: Suu Kyi announces that she will use $1.3 million prize money to establish health and education trust for Burmese people.

1993: Group of Nobel Peace Laureates, denied entry to Burma, visit Burmese refugees on Thailand border, call for Suu Kyi's release, Their appeal later repeated at UN Commission for Human Rights in Geneva.

1994: February. First non-family visitors to Suu Kyi: UN representative, U.S. congressman, New York Times reporter. September-October. SLORC leaders meet with Suu Kyi, who still asks for a public dialogue.

1995: July 10. SLORC releases Suu Kyi from house arrest after six years of detention.
In the last four years her movements have still been restricted. While she has had some opportunities to telephone her family in England, she is regularly denounced in the government-controlled media, and there is concern for her personal safety. Efforts to revive any NLD party activities have been balked, and its members have been jailed and physically attacked. In the first months after detention was ended, she was able to speak to large gatherings of supporters outside her home, but this was stopped. Yet her popularity in the country has not diminished.
Internationally her voice has been heard not infrequently. Reporters with cameras and videotape have been able to interview her in person, and telephone interviews with the media outside Burma have also been published. Using video cassettes she has sent out statements, including the keynote address to the NGO Forum at the U.N. International Women's Conference in Beijing in August 1995.
There have been a number of visitors from abroad, including a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, whom she told that Norway will be the first country she will visit when free to travel. SLORC has changed its name to the State Peace and Development Council, but its repressive policies and violation of human rights continue unabated.
Suu Kyi discourages tourists from visiting Burma and businessmen from investing in the country until it is free. She finds hearing for such pleas among western nations, and the United States has applied economic sanctions against Burma, but Burma's neighbours follow their policy of not intervening in the internal affairs of other sovereign states, and Burma has been admitted into the Association of South Eastern Asian Nations.

On March 27, 1999, Michael Aris died of prostate cancer in London. He had petitioned the Burmese authorities to allow him to visit Suu Kyi one last time, but they had rejected his request. He had not seen her since a Christmas visit in 1995. The government always urged her to join her family abroad, but she knew that she would not be allowed to return. This separation she regarded as one of the sacrifices she had had to make in order to work for a free Burma.

Selected Bibliography
By Aung San Suu Kyi
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings. Edited with introduction by Michael Aris. 2nd ed., revised. New York and London: Penguin, 1995. (Includes essays by friends and scholars.)
Voice of Hope: Conversations. London: Penguin, 1997 and New York City: Seven Stories Press, 1997 (Conversations beginning in November 1995 with Alan Clements, the founder of the Burma Project in California who helped with the script for the film based on her life, “Beyond Rangoon”.)

Other Sources
“Aung San Suu Kyi”, in Current Biography, February 1992.
Clements, Alan and Leslie Kean. Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity. New York: Aperture, 1994. (Many colour photographs with text, Includes essay by Aung San Suu Kyi.)
Clements, Alan. Burma: The Next Killing Fields. Tucson, Arizona; Odonian Press, 1992. (With a foreword by the Dalai Lama.)
Lintner, Bertil. Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948. Boulder. Colorado: Westview, 1994. (By a well-informed Swedish journalist.)
Lintner, Bertil. Outrage: Burma’s Struggle for Democracy. 2nd ed., Edinburgh: Kiscadale, 1995.
Mirante, Edith T. Burmese Looking Glass. A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution. New York: Grove, 1993.
Smith, Martin J. Burma: Intrangency and the Politics of Ethnicity. London: Zed Books, 1991. (A detailed and well-organised account by a journalist of the violent conflict between the military government and the many minorities.)
Victor, Barbara. The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma’s Prisoner. Boston and London: Faber & Faber, 1998. (A sympathetic account by a wellpublished author and journalist, whose research in Burma included interviews with government leaders.)

CNF/CNA Mithmuh in ka tawnning le ka tlawnnak report

Salai Joseph

Canada in Mizoram lei ah

Feb 28,2009 in Canada ram in ka thawhhnik i March 1st ah New Delhi ka phan, nihnih thumcam in ka um i Delhi Chinmi zawngtam nawnte ka hmuh hna. Antlawnlen ning zoh ah mithar lawngte ansi cang, mihlun cu kutdawng bantuk in relkhawhding khi ansi.

March 4th in Delhi in ka thawh tthan i Lengpui Airport ah va ttumding kansi nan Chum a tamtuk ruangah ttumkho lo in Imphal, Manipur lei ah kan lan vuahmah ko, Airline Control Center in thawng an van thanh nawlh tthan i Kolkotta leiah kir nawlhding kasi thawng an van kan thanh ah cun a chungi cuangmi vialte kan lau dih. Zeiti awkttha, kan kirnawlh tthan i March 5th Airindia in kan kal nawlh tthan i tluangte in kan phan khove.

Ka hawile te nihcun an rak ka dawni,, VIP Light cu an van i ceuh ko hna, ziah ti luammam cun nan ka dawnle ti inka ti hna i hawikawm ttha cu aw ti in ka hawilete nihcun nithluahmah in Lengpui cun Aizawl leiah an ka phurhthluahmah ko. Chaltlang Tourist Londge ah cun zanhnih an ka riahter hnu in kan i timh mi Mauttam Bawmhnak ding kan herh mi pawl hna cu zarkhat chungah tlamtlingte in kandih khawhhnu in Khawte lei, mizoram chungah cun kan i chawkhna i bawmhnak cu kan pek hnikhna.

CNA ralkap hna he Tio ah kan i tong

Cu kan dih hnu cun, Saikah khua lei ah kal in kan i thawh nawlh i, Tarpho, Mizoram, VCP le midang YMA hruaitu le te zawng cu ka tlunpi hnik hna i Saikah lei cu kan kalhnik hna.... Bualpi in Tio cu kan hrangah cun kalhar, chuk lawngte cu sikaw a lawn in kan i lawngthluahmah hna. Tio in, Bualpi pawl a van tlungleimi he cun kan i tawnghnik hna i, Tio ah Ralkap an umi va i ralring uh an kan ti hnikk, Cuah cun Saikah in a van kandawngmi Bualpi tiang a van ra mi kan thilri phurding pawl cu, pakhat kan fiali Kawlralkap maw ansi, CNA dah ansi ti va i fian law ti in a thlite in kan fial. Arannak cun a tlithluahmah, aral cun a heicuan hnik hna i CNA ansi, ttih a nungla lo van hawngko u ti in a kan ti i cu ti cun Tio leiah cun kan zuangthluahmah, mizo kan hawilete zawngnih cun ttihphun phai cun umko an kan tlaihsual la, kir tthan ko u sih ti cun an ti ve ko. Ahmun Tio hmun kan va phak cun CNA pawlcu rawl an rak ei lio asi, an van kan zoh i, ramhla pi in a van hawngmi kansi kha kan chimhhnik hna, kan far le te mizo nungak zawngcu thinphang in umlo dingin an ti leh lamhna. An kan theihthiam ngai ngai.

Khuachung tlangval a kan dawngtu le te cu ka hal hnik hna i, Ziah CNA pawl hi Internet kan theihning cun sual dawh ngai in pei kan theihpeng hna cu, khua chung mino he nan i daw ngai ngai maw? Ti in ka hal hna i, E kan ralkap he kan i dawtlo ah a ho te he hme kan i dawt ne le? Ramhrang ah betak te in ttuantti dingin mino zawng kan thinglung ah a umtuk cang. An rian ttuannak zawngah thazang kan ti khawhchung in kan chuah cangla kan ti cu ta, tlangkip mino nih peih kan duh ko canghna ti in a ka chimh. Tio, ah cun CNA pawl an rawlei mi pawl cu ka van zoh tthan, ka van zoh ah khin ka lunghna khi a fak an rawlei mihna kha eikhawhding si lo, Buh le Tio tiva tidai te cu an i meh/dih ko bu in thabat thei lo in ramle miphun ca an ttuanning fiangte in keimah nih pumpak mit in ka heihmuh tik ah khin zangfak um ngai le dirpi phu asi timi khi ka hmuh hna.

Mizoram lei i kan i kalpi mi Mizo hna zawngnih cun an zangafak ngai ngai hna,". Kan khuate in lo kalchuan in kan in ah te in lo thlengdawn ania aww". ti in an ti hna, hmaipanh ngai khin an i chawn hna i ka lungthlite cun aw an cawlhcangh ning hi mithmuh hnulawng in pei theihkhawh asi hi ti in ka lungchungah bia ka phaisiak len. Hman hna kan i thlakpi hna, Ka Unu nih, Sweet nghakchia pawl hrangah kanti mi pawl hna cu a zangfak tuk hna i Pack khat in a tthenhta hna, cu hnu cun Lakphakdin nak dingah tangka tlawmte a phalh ta hna i lak an duh lo, nanmah hmanh har le cheng in nan van tlawngi nanmah hrang ah, nan chungkhat, khuachung hrangtu lehlam ah i ken ko ti in an nawl len ko, na bu in ka Unu cu a sumkho lo i, Hi ka GIFT te hmanh nan ka lakpiak duh loh ah cun zeitin hme asikhawh hnga ti bu in an duhloh na bu te khin, an zal ah a sahpiak hna.

Khua a van tlai thluahmah cang i khuanu khuapa, mino hna nih an kan dawnfawn tik caah sau nawn bia i ruahta manh lo in kal kan hau i kalding i thawh kan i tim, an nih thlanglei zuangding ansi i nannih kal hmasa u law ti in kan i en ve ve penghna bu in zangfah te in va zuangu law kan nihtu nih kan van in zohko hna la ti in kan ti peng hnu ah an kan zuantak. Mui le chapkar ah zeiti tiangdek an heizuan ngha mu!! Ramcaah tha di ti umlo in an muihmai ah panh hir hiarte in an umpeng kho hna mi kha amak kho tuk ka ti mi asi.

Saikah, zanhnih kan riahhnu cun mizoram leiah kan kirpah cun kan i kal pimi hna mizo, kan unau pawlnih cun "An van fel em em tiangkhan letnatna in an khat mai kha thilmak tak ani". ti in an heiti, an kawnglam cu hehti in an chim, "Kanhriatdan kha chuan rukru suamhmang ang mai in kan lo hria na, a tak ah chuan an nihtawp loh kha maw, an fel em em lehnghal, kan sum pek pawh chu an laduh mangsi lo". ti tiang hna khin bia an kan ruah/kan i ruahlen hna. Attuanmi caah ttha adi ko la i, a rak chim au ve saw sawh mi hrangah cun, au le khuan cu nuam ngai dawh asi ko hi!.

CNA i a dirmi pawl zawng nih thazang laknak ah rak hmang u law, kan ram hrang i nan temtuarning hi mipi nih an in theih pi ngai ngai cang ko hna dawhoh, lungsau te in rak ttuan cio mau ko rih u, nan i timhnak nanzan mangcu ni nikhat ah cun a chuak te ko la!.

Nanrian ttuan nak nan har nan in ning kan hmuh ve hnatik ah thajang tampi an kan pek, kan nihnih in bawmkho hna lo hmanh u si law, kan thinglung cun kan in dirpi pengko hna dawhoh.

Damtei'n

Salai joseph (Ref: YCCF-International Yahoo group mail: Monday, April 27, 2009 3:50 AM)

Chin mi tam pi nih kan phun hnam cio min in Khuado,Fang Er,Tho,K’Thai Ei,Taai Chai Nai,On Hu Saung Thar Ei pwei,Pawl kut ti ah a phun phun min kan pek nan a ngai ngai ah cun new year ti duh nak asi ko.

Chin Social Welfare Association(Yangon) ih hruai nak in hi puai hi kan tuah khawh mi si ih Myo ne pa kua tling in lam a phun phun, Faction Show a phun phun le hla sak nak a phun phun a um.

A rak chuak kho tu zong kan tam ngai ih a nuam ngai.Kan mah phun hnam cio le myone min cio in New year cu tuah a rak si tawn ruang ah kan tha zang a dih deuh ih hi ban tuk National level in Newer puai cu kan rak tuah khawh tawn lo.

Asi nan a tu cu National level in hi ban tuk puai kan rak tuah khawh caah lung lawm awk ngai asi.

1988 in a rak a stop cang mi Chin Lu Hmu yay a tinn ti mi zong a rak nung than ih lung lawm ngai ngai ding asi.

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