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Suu Kyi to be bestowed with Congressional Gold Medal Award

New Delhi, Fri, 25 Apr 2008 NI Wire

The US senate on Thursday decided to confer Aung Sung Suu Kyi with America’s highest Congressional Gold Medal Award.


The decision was taken unanimously by the US senate to bestow her, with the coveted award for her spirit and resilience towards her pro- democracy approach.

Suu Kyi formed National League of Democracy and won the election but the military junta refused to give her power. She was then put under house arrest in 1989 for her activism to set the ground for democracy in Myanmar, but it is still in the hands of military ruler.

The activist group US campaign for Burma welcomed the award in its statements said, “In a world in which public heroes are few and far between, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the greatest people of our time; she richly deserves this award, an award we hope will show the people of Burma they are not alone in their struggle.”

“The Generals, who control around 400,000 soldiers, are losing a battle with a single, unarmed woman. Her only tools are courage and loving kindness, yet she has captured the hearts and loyalty of the people of Burma,” it added.

The winner of Noble Prize for Peace said no to freedom which was offered her at the cost of her ouster from her country.

An alumnus of lady Shree Ram College, her Indian connection date back to 1960’s when her father Ma Khin Kyi served as an Ambassador to India. A follower of Gandhi’s non violence, she still even in house arrest evokes the same aura struggle which she led in 1980’s.

She joined the eminent personalities to be bestowed with the Congressional Gold Medal, including Tony Blair, Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, black civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks and Dalai Lama.

There has been growing resentment in the people of Myanmar against the ruler and many such protests have been thrashed brutally by the junta in recent pasts.

Reportedly, Suu Kyi’s party has asked to vote against the referendum on a new constitution which according to the rulers will be a road map to democracy. Interestingly there is a provision which disqualified a person who is married to a foreigner from holding any office. This ultimately will bar Suu Kyi who got married to Michael Aris who died in 1999 due to prostate cancer.


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