Burma S Fearless Splinter Of Glass
The prize must be small comfort to the fiery daughter of a Burmese independence hero-if she even knows she has won. Suu Kyi has been under house arrest without a telephone for more than two years. A military junta, which took over in 1988, rules with a brutal hand; it has ignored democratic elections, in which Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won 80 percent of the vote, and arrested as many as 3,000 activists....