Aung San Suu Kyi~Prisoner of Rangoon BBC 4 2003 XviD

Aung San Suu Kyi~Prisoner of Rangoon BBC 4 2003 XviD

A 2003 BBC documentary film about well-known Myanmar (Burma( dissident Aung

San Suu Kyi, whose only weapon against the ruling military junta has been

non-violent civil disobedience. She has led the torch for freedom and never

faltered.

Aung San Suu Kyi  is one of the world's most renown freedom fighters and

advocates of nonviolence, having served as the figurehead for Burma's

struggle for democracy since 1988. Born on June 19th, 1945 to Burma's

independence hero, Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi was educated in Burma, India,

and the United Kingdom. Her father was assassinated when she was only two

years old.

In 1988, while living in London, she returned to Burma to nurse her dying

mother, and was plunged into the country's nationwide uprising that had just

begun. Joining the newly-forming National League for Democracy political

party, Suu Kyi gave numerous speeches calling for freedom and democracy.

The military regime responded to the uprising with brute force, shooting and

otherwise killing up to 10,000 demonstrators — student, women, children, and

others — in a mater of months. Unable to maintain its grip on power, the

regime was forced to call for a general election in 1990.

As Suu Kyi began to campaign for the NLD, she and many others were detained

by the regime. Despite being held under house arrest, the NLD went on to win

a staggering 82% of the seats in parliament. The regime never recognized the

results.

Suu Kyi has been in and out of arrest ever since. She was held from

1989-1995, and again from 2000-2002. She was again arrested and placed

behind bars in May 2003 after the Depayin massacre, during which up to 100

of her supporters were beaten to death by the regime's cronies. She has

moved from prison back into house arrest in late 2003 and has been held

there ever since.

She has won numerous international awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize,

Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament, United States Presidential

Medal of Freedom, and Jawaharlal Nehru Award from India. She has called on

people around the world to join the struggle for freedom in Burma, saying

"Please use your liberty to promote ours."

29m vhs rip