Sunday, September 30, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi meets her peers - from The Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/30/aung-san-suu-kyi-meets-her-peers.html This is a must read for the perils that activists everywhere must confront, even up to yesterday and shows us how skillful and resilient Suu Kyi has been to survive so long - and now be on world tours. kmk

The late Leo Nichols--I met him and his wife once at a dinner party for "Timber friends." I left Burma in 1980s and heard of his death while working at RFA.

AI Overview The Danish (and Norwegian, Finnish, Swiss) honorary consul in Burma (Myanmar) during the 1990s who was arrested and died in pri...