The renewal of Aung San Suu Kyi’s arrest casts shame on the Burmese junta’s western sponsors
John Pilger The Guardian 5/31/08
When I phoned Aung San Suu Kyi’s home in Rangoon yesterday, I imagined the path to her door that looks down on Inya Lake. Through ragged palms, a trip-wire is visible, a reminder that this is the prison of a woman whose party was elected by a landslide in 1990, a democratic act extinguished by men in ludicrous uniforms. (more…)