To answer the question "Who is Aung San Suu Kyi?" within a blog post would be a miraculous feat. Hopefully, a brief overview will pique your interest in this amazing women and the situation of her home country.
Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Aung San, who is credited with negotiating Burma's independence from the United Kingdom. His political accomplishments were not celebrated by all and he was assassinated in 1947.
After completing her education abroad and working internationally, at one point for the UN, Suu Kyi returned to Burma to care for her ailing mother. While in Burma, General Ne Win, the military dictator of Burma since 1962 resigned. Suu Kyi hoped that this resignation would bring great change to Burma but after uprisings were violently suppressed by the military, she made the decision to actively become involved. Over the next few years Suu Kyi voiced her beliefs despite laws banning gatherings of more than four people, constant personal harassment, and a ruling prohibiting her from standing for election. Even though she was placed under house arrest before the elections her party, the National League for Democracy, won 82% of the parliamentary seats. This success was never recognized by the State Peace and Development Council and Suu Kyi remained under house arrest.
During her years of imprisonment Suu Kyi has received many international awards including the Nobel peace Prize. Despite requests from many politicians and prominent international figures, Burma has not allowed Suu Kyi complete freedom. Suu Kyi’s strength and passion for a new Burma have become a universal symbol for political change.
Most of the communities in the entire Indian sub-continent(such as Bengali) are succumbed in ‘Culture of Poverty'(Oscar Lewis), irrespective of class or economic strata, lives in pavement or apartment. Nobody is genuinely regret ed or ashamed of the deep-rooted corruption, decaying general quality of life, worst Politico-admin system, bad work place, weak mother language, continuous consumption of common social space (mental as well as physical, both). We are becoming fathers & mothers only by self-procreation, mindlessly & blindfold(supported by some lame excuses). Simply depriving their(the children) fundamental rights of a decent, caring society, fearless & dignified living. Do not ever look for any other positive alternative behaviour (values) to perform human way of parenthood, i.e. deliberately co-parenting children those are born out of ignorance, extreme poverty. It seems that all of us are being driven only by the very animal instinct. If the Bengali people ever be able to bring that genuine freedom (from vicious cycle of ‘poverty’) in their own attitude, involve themselves in ‘Production of Space’ (Henri Lefebvre), an intense attachment with the society at large - one different pathway has to create to overcome inherent 'hopeless' psyche; decent, rich Politics will definitely come up. – Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, 16/4, Girish Banerjee Lane, Howrah-711101, India.
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