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Aung San Suu Kyi is the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar.

Aung San Suu Kyi


The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has called on companies to cut ties with the political leadership of Myanmar (Burma), a country whose brutal regime murders, rapes and enslaves its own citizens. Aung San Suu Kyi is a leader of a nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Myanmar. She was under house arrest from 1989 to 1995 --- six years. And she was arrested again in  September 2000 and released in May 2002. She is married and has two children. She is a courageous peace hero who has taken serious risks to rally the citizens of Myanmar to regain their freedoms in a non-violent manner.


Many big-name companies such as Wal-Mart, Value City, Jones Apparel, Ames, JanSport, Kenneth Cole, have pledged not to sell goods from Myanmar. (Information source: iAbolish.com. Also, more info on The Children's Place purchasing matters)

Go to http://www.dassk.com to see a video and hear Aung San Suu Kyi.

Also, go to http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/assk/assk.html to hear more of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi

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Go to http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0616-02.htm to read about issues with Unocal and human rights abuses. Burmese Army battalions working for Unocal pipeline project from 1992-95 brutalized villagers into forced or slave labor.


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