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Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of the assassinated Burmese hero, Aung San. Born in 1945 and educated in Rangoon, Delhi and at Oxford University, she married Dr Michael Aris and brought up their children in Oxford. In 1988 she returned to Burma to care for her dying mother but was caught in a national revolt against political repression. She became the leader of the reform movement and her party won a colossal electoral victory in May 1990. In July 1989 she was placed under house arrest and has spent many years incarcerated. She is still the focal point of the pro-democracy movement, which rose up against the government once again in 2007. In addition to the Nobel Peace Prize, she has also been awarded the Sakharov Prize and the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom. Alan Clements is a journalist, writer and human rights activist. He lived in Burma for many years in the 70s and 80s, nearly 5 years as a monk. He is the co-founder and director of the Burma Project USA/Canada, as well as a political satirist, performing his theatrical monologue to audiences around the world. Interviewed many times by the media he has also made presentations to the Soros Foundation and Mikhail Gorbachev's State of the World Forum.
Aung San Suu Kyi's struggle for freedom is Burma's struggle for freedom. If you read this important book you'll understand why * Maureen Lipman * Suu Kyi is one of the most remarkable and brave women of our time. Her dying husband Michael was refused permission to go to visit her. Even the phone calls I used to have with her have been stopped for some years. The regime in Burma is an outrage, and it is a blot on the international community that we have done so little about it. This book is testimony to the staunch commitment and sacrifice of an astonishingly courageous and visionary person * The Rt Hon the Lord David Steel of Aikwood KT * This is a remarkable book, as inspired as it is wise. Read it and learn from Aung San Suu Kyi's amazing life * Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart * I am delighted that The Voice of Hope is being republished. This is a message that the world should hear * President Jimmy Carter * [Shows] Aung San Suu Kyi's humour, erudition, wisdom and accessibility, and demonstrate[s] why she has become a world spiritual leader * New York Times *
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