[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 116 (Tuesday, July 18, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1454-E1455]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


             BURMESE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER FREE AT LAST

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                        HON. PATRICIA SCHROEDER

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 18, 1995
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, on July 10, 1995, Aung San Suu Kyi 
stepped outside her house for the first time in 6 years. Since July 
1989, Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy 
[NLD] and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been held incommunicado 
under house arrest by the military government, the State Law and Order 
Restoration Council [SLORC] of Mynamar, formerly known as Burma.
  Aung San Suu Kyi's detention was part of a persistent and ongoing 
pattern of human rights violations committed by the SLORC since they 

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took power in 1988. When the SLORC took over, they imprisoned thousands 
who protested against the single-party government on charges of 
violating martial law.
  Aung San Suu Kyi spent almost a year before her arrest campaigning 
tirelessly for democracy, nonviolence, and human rights with former 
defense minister Tin Oo, under the rubric of the National League for 
Democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi's house was raided by the SLORC on July 20, 
1989, and she was arrested for ``endangering the safety of the state.'' 
She has been held these last 6 years without formal charges, unable to 
communicate even with her family in England. In spite of her 
imprisonment, her party, the NLD, won 81 percent of the seats in the 
government. The military government did not acknowledge the election 
results.
  She is now free to resume her fight for democracy. I hope she 
continues her struggle the same way she began it: Selflessly, 
tirelessly, and with complete dedication to bringing democracy and 
respect for human rights to her people.


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