Now in paperback, the first full account of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s role in the struggle against Burma’s military junta. Included is a new afterword by the author, which covers events from the time of the original publication in 1998 to Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest in May 2002.
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Barbara Victor is a journalist who has covered the Middle East for most of her career. She is also the author of four novels, which have been translated into twenty-two languages, and six nonfiction works. Her most recent nonfiction work is Women Suicide Bombers, which will coincide with her television film documentary on women suicide bombers in the Occupied Territories and Gaza. Ms. Victor and her husband divide their time between Paris and New York.
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ON THE SURFACE, Rangoon, or Yangon as it has been renamed by the Burmese military government, looks like any other overcrowded city in Southeast Asia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legal fold, prodemocracy movement, crop substitution, national races Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Daw Suu Kyi, Aung San Suu Kyi, The Lady, General Khin Nyunt, General Ne Win, United States, Colonel Hla Min, Khun Sa, United Nations, New York, Insein Prison, University Avenue, Kyi Maung, General Abel, Inya Lake, Michael Aris, General Mating Mating, General Than Shwe, Nobel Peace Prize, Daw Khin Kyi, Saya San, Burmese Army, Colonel Kyaw Thein, General David Abel, Peter Borne New!
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ON THE SURFACE, Rangoon, or Yangon as it has been renamed by the Burmese military government, looks like any other overcrowded city in Southeast Asia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legal fold, prodemocracy movement, crop substitution, national races Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Daw Suu Kyi, Aung San Suu Kyi, The Lady, General Khin Nyunt, General Ne Win, United States, Colonel Hla Min, Khun Sa, United Nations, New York, Insein Prison, University Avenue, Kyi Maung, General Abel, Inya Lake, Michael Aris, General Mating Mating, General Than Shwe, Nobel Peace Prize, Daw Khin Kyi, Saya San, Burmese Army, Colonel Kyaw Thein, General David Abel, Peter Borne New!
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- Freedom from Fear and Other Writings: Revised Edition by Aung San Suu Kyi on 4 pages
- Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi on page 42, and page 155
- New Mexico (America Series) by Tanya Lloyd Kyi on page 132, and page 155
- Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela on page 103
- Getting Away With Murder: Weapons for the War Against Domestic Violence by Raoul Felder in Front Matter
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