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Aung San Suu Kyi

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Opposition Leader, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Burma

Due to other commitments, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was not free to travel to the Forum 2000 Conference in 2011, but has kindly sent a video message that was screened during the conference.

Pro-democracy political activist and dissident, she is the leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma) and a noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of non-violent resistance. She won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and in 1991, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship.

1997

Morning Session, Sept. 4

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