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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is the Burmese opposition leader opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while under house arrest after the ruling military junta in Burma refused to honour the results of general elections in which her party won majority votes. She was finally released from house arrest on 13 November 2010. She delivered the 2011 Reith Lectures, which were covertly recorded by the BBC and smuggled out of Burma.
“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.”
“It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.”
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“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.”
“It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.”
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