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)

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Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi

Home Page and Blog of Aung San Suu Kyi

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.