When Aung San Suu Kyi returned to her native Burma to tend to her ailing mother, no one could have known that, within a few months, the quiet woman would become a leader of her people. In 1989, after Suu Kyi had worked only a year in Burma’s renewed struggle for democracy, the military government place her under house arrest. The following years, while still confined to her home, Suu Kyi led Burma’s National League for Democracy to victory in a national election. The military government refused to recognize the election.
In 1991, still under arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize. Upon her release from house arrest in 1995, thousands flocked to Suu Kyi’s home in Rangoon to hear her speak. There she offered hope that democracy may yet blossom in Burma.
Whitney Stewart’s biography, based on personal interviews with Aung San Suu Kyi and those around her, illuminates the dangers endured and the triumphs enjoyed by this inspiring woman, who has been put back under house arrest in her homeland.
Additional materials by Burmese authors brings this fascinating biography right up-to-date, including the Saffron Revolution of 2007.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Fearless Voice of Burma
Nonfiction / Biography
Publication Date: Jun-2008
Trade Paperback
Price: $14.95 Size: 6 x 9
Hardcover
Price: $24.95 Size: 6 x 9
Author: Whitney Stewart with additions by Dr. Sein Win, Dr. Ni Ni Swe, M.D. and Angelene Naw.
Production Director Robert Fuller
ISBN: 0-595-48320-8
149 Pages
149 PagesRobert Fuller had been my Science teacher during 60’s in Rangoon, Burma and he now lives in Lincoln, Nebraska (USA). He served as a project director in publishing the second edition of the book, Aung San Suu Kyi Fearless Voice of Burma. With his extensive research and timeless efforts, he managed to get not only financial help but also the support of three authors from Burma who came forward to help with the book project. They all wrote and submitted documents to him in time allowing him to produce the book, which is now available on the net.
It contains more than 20 new photographs including ASSK with her Methodist English High School (Rangoon) classmates from 1959-60. It is 21 pages longer with a preface and an epilogue, two timelines, one for Burma and one for ASSK, and two maps of Burma, one with the British names and one with the Junta's names.
It gives me great pleasure to introduce the following information about this book for him.
Chandroo
