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Oct
29
Is Nazri for real?
October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment
Here’s a classic quote from the man: “I don’t know. I don’t know anything.” Yes, that quote is not in its proper context. Here’s another one, regardless of context, which just shows the intellectual caliber of the man: “In a democracy, the minority cannot control the majority. The minority does not speak for the majority.”
I don’t know about you, but that sounds like someone who’s running the United States of America to me. Gosh, I guess the smart people have just decided not to get involved in politics.
For the full interview, read the Sunday Times on 28 October 2007.
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4
My Last Conversation With Aung San Suu Kyi (By John Pilger)
October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment
As the people of Burma rise up again, we have had a rare sighting of Aung San Suu Kyi. There she stood, at the back gate of her lakeside home in Rangoon, where she is under house arrest. She looked very thin. For years, people would brave the roadblocks just to pass by her house and be reassured by the sound of her playing the piano. She told me she would lie awake listening for voices outside and to the thumping of her heart. “I found it difficult to breathe lying on my back after I became ill, she said.”
That was a decade ago. Stealing into her house, as I did then, required all the ingenuity of the Burmese underground. My film-making partner David Munro and I were greeted by her assistant, Win Htein, who had spent six years in prison, five of them in solitary confinement. Yet his face was open and his handshake warm. He led us into the house, a stately pile fallen on hard times. The garden with its ragged palms falls down to Inya Lake and to a trip wire, a reminder that this was the prison of a woman elected by a landslide in 1990, a democratic act extinguished by generals in ludicrous uniforms.
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