Freedom from Fear And Other Writings

by Suu Kyi, Aung San; Aris, Michael; Aris, Michael; Havel, Vaclav; Tutu, Desmond M.

• ISBN13: 9780141039497
• ISBN10: 0141039493
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781101564004
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-14
• Publisher: Penguin Books
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Summary

With forewords by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Vclav Havel.

Author Biography

Aung San Suu Kyi is the pre-democracy opposition leader in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. She has been kept under detention for most of the past two decades. Her party, the National League for Democracy, won an overwhelming victory in 1990 elections but was denied power by the military, which has ruled since 1962. She is still being held by the government of Myanmar.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Foreword to the First Edition	p. xiii
Foreword to the Second Edition	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
The Inheritance
My Father	p. 3
My Country and People	p. 39
Intellectual Life in Burma and India under Colonialism	p. 82
Literature and Nationalism in Burma	p. 140
The Struggle
In Quest of Democracy	p. 167
Freedom from Fear	p. 180
The True Meaning of Boh	p. 186
Speech to a Mass Rally at the Shwedagon Pagoda	p. 192
The Objectives	p. 199
In the Eye of the Revolution	p. 203
Two Letters to Amnesty International	p. 208
Letter to the Ambassadors	p. 211
The Role of the Citizen in the Struggle for Democracy	p. 212
Open Letter to the UN Commission on Human Rights	p. 214
Dust and Sweat	p. 217
The Need for Solidarity among Ethnic Groups	p. 218
The People Want Freedom	p. 224
The Agreement to Stand for Election	p. 227
The 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace	p. 228
The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech	p. 235
Towards a True Refuge	p. 239
The Need for Dialogue	p. 249
Empowerment for a Culture of Peace and Development	p. 260
Appreciations
A Flowering of the Spirit: Memories of Suu and Her Family	p. 275
Suu Burmese	p. 292
Aung San Suu Kyi: Is she Burma's Woman of Destiny?	p. 301
Aung San Suu Kyi and the Peaceful Struggle for Human Rights in Burma	p. 318
The Spirit of Reconciliation	p. 360
List of Contributors	p. 362
Index	p. 365
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