Aung San Suu Kyi: BBC Interview (1/2) | November 15, 2010

• published: 26 Nov 2010
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In her first-ever TV interview after being released from seven years of house arrest, the leader of Burma's democracy movement and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace, AUNG SAN SUU KYI, lays out her experiences as she endured years of being imprisoned in her own home. In this BBC Exclusive interview, Suu Kyi shares with BBC reporter John Simpson her aspirations for her people as she takes up the mantle of democratic struggle once again - doing so at great personal cost; as her husband, British academic Michael Aris, was repeatedly denied a visa to Burma by the military regime and was dying of cancer in 1999, she had to heartbreakingly choose to stay in Burma instead, fearing that is she left the country, she would not be allowed back. Just a few weeks after her release, she has finally seen her younger son, Kim Aris, for the first time in more than a decade; she has never met one of two grandchildren. Enduring imprisonment - whether in jail or in her crumbling villa in Central Rangoon for fifteen of the past twenty years, surviving at least one assassination attempt, perseverance in the midst of ever-increasing intimidation by the military rulers and her great personal sacrifices - all this, Aung San Suu Kyi did in the name of democracy. Read more about the life of AUNG SAN SUU KYI by clicking the link below: http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php/burma/about-burma/about-burma/a-biography-of-aung-san-suu-kyi PilipinasMabuhay100 supports AUNG SAN SUU KYI and the Burmese People's fight for JUSTICE, FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY in Burma. © 2010 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) All Rights Reserved. NOTE: Copyright Infringement is NOT Intended. SPECIAL THANKS to our dear friend, NinoyAquinoTV, for all the help! :-)