Who believes that the political world must run on virtue if it is to truly serve people? Who believes that freedom is a fruit of truth? Queen Isabel believed it in her day, and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi believes it today.The Noble Peace Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 11 of the past 17 years under house arrest. Her crime was to win an landslide victory for freedom against the savage junta in Burma. Daw Suu Kyi could leave Burma at any time, but she refuses to abandon her people and abandon a just cause.
Today a letter signed by 59 former Presidents and Prime Ministers (including US Presidents Carter, Bush and Clinton) has been made public calling on the leader of the Burmese junta Than Shwe to release Daw Suu Kyi and all [1,200] political prisoners in Burma.
Daw Suu Kyi's term of house arrest expires on 27th May 2007--which is the 17th anniversary of her overwhelming election victory of 1990. If she is not released then in June the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is due to issue a legal opinion on her case.
Pray for Daw Suu Kyi, pray for Burma, pray for the military regime.
[Image: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi]
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