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64 Words for Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s detained democracy leader, turns 64 on June 19, 2009. To mark that day and call for her release, a website called 64 Words for Aung San Suu Kyi has been launched. Anyone from around the world can visit the website and leave a message of support for Suu Kyi in 64 words-text, audio or video.
Already, the website has garnered messages from people from around the globe-politicians, actors and celebrities but also individuals who have pledged their support and demanded the release of Suu Kyi who has been under detention for much of the past 19 years.
You can visit the site to read, hear and watch the hundreds of messages left by people, including luminaries from the world’s power list like actor George Clooney, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Czech leader Vaclav Havel, football star David Beckham, actor Daniel Craig, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, President of the Maldives M Nasheed, author Salman Rushdie, actor Julia Roberts, UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron, Madeleine Albright, Steven Spielberg, Orhan Pamuk and several others.
There are tweets from Yoko Ono, a video from Richard Branson plus a blog that’s regularly updated on the website. Uploading your own 64 words for Suu Kyi is not difficult either.
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Monday, June 8, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Filed under Blogosphere · Tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's detained democracy leader, Myanmar, Suu Kyi
It’s a pity that even after so much time, so little has been done to facilitate the release of Aung San Suu Kyi.
North Korea should submit to international pressure and ethical governance and go the way of its brother down the Democracy lane
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Deb Reply:
July 7th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
@perennialcynic: Don’t mean it as an affront, but why mix issues relating to two different countries? Whether our neighbouring Myanmar frees Suu Kyi or not can hardly be of concern to the rulers in distant North Korea.
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Thanks for the link — have uploaded it on my blog (with due credit!). The link to your link: http://www.asianwindow.com/burma/when-shes-64/
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Quite a star-studded zone, that! But will the junta free her? Does all this help?
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