An elected prime minister held in detention for years for the crime of being the elected prime minister. If you don't know the tale of Aung San Suu Kyi you should take a couple of minutes and read up on the ongoing situation in Burma.
Myanmar's military regime has extended the detention of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, police sources have said."We issued an order of further detention," the sources said on Friday.
The latest period of her detention began in May 2003 and was due to expire this weekend.
On Wednesday, Laura Bush, the US first lady, and female US senators added their voice to international demands that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate be freed.
That call was echoed by the US state department, which also condemned the detention of other Myanmar activists, saying it showed the military government had "renewed its assault on human rights".
I was livid when I read about this on the weekend.
Posted by: DG | May 28, 2007 at 08:53 PM