Daw Aung San Suu Kyi turns 60 today!

"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it ...With so close a relationship between fear and corruption it is little wonder that in any society where fear is rife corruption in all forms becomes deeply entrenched. "
- Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate


From Mail & Guardian Online, June 17th 2005:
Relatives and friends close to Aung San Suu Kyi said they welcomed the international appeals for her release, which one family friend described as "the best gift for her 60th birthday".


Read this too.

http://www.madnomad.com/0505_assk_bday.htm

We each have a little justice in our hands. And we all have voices. Goodnight.