The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, gratefulbooksngifts.
This is the first full account of one woman's heroic struggle against SLORC, the brutal military junta in power in Burma since 1988, and an expose of one of the most violent and corrupt regimes in the world today. Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been leading a battle for democracy, freedom, and human rights in Burma. The daughter of General Aung San, the man who gained independence for Burma from the British and who was assassinated on the eve of Burmese independence, Aung San Suu Kyi alone made the world aware of the regime that functions by torture, terror, and murder. Based on exclusive interviews with the military leaders of SLORC, the drug lords who control the export of opium and heroin, foreign business investors and apologists for the junta, jailed and tortured victims of SLORC, and Aung San Suu Kyi herself, the story of Burma today emerges: Orwellian, tragic, and with only one flicker of hope, known to all as "the Lady.", Hardcover, Label: Faber & Faber, Faber & Faber, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1998-04, Studio: Faber & Faber, Verkaufsrang: 3887877.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books.
Faber & Faber. Used - Acceptable. Ships from Reno, NV. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy!

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arts and literature,asia,asian,authors,biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,history,international and world politics, Aung San Suu Kyi's first-ever biography bends over backward in the name of "balance." Like almost all visitors to this embattled country, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Barbara Victor entered Burma (now called Myanmar) under the auspices of its government, a brutal dictatorship that regularly jails and tortures its dissidents. The situation presents certain intrinsic dilemmas, considering that Victor was never able to interview the subject of her book, the most famous dissident of all: Aung San Suu Kyi, the beloved "Lady" of Burma's democracy movement. Nonetheless, Victor provides an excellent overview of Aung San Suu Kyi's career and achievements, in particular her turbulent early life. Her account makes clear the strong influence of Aung San Suu Kyi's father, a revered military hero who was assassinated in 1947 in the struggle for Burmese independence when she was only two years old. Especially in contrast to Aung San Suu Kyi's almost saintly self-sacrifice, the Burmese junta (cursed with the movie-villain acronym SLORC) tends to come off as almost cartoonishly evil. Victor's access to top-level Burmese generals precludes such simplistic analysis, but what's fascinating is how the regime consistently betrays itself, exposing its own corruption and moral decay even as it twists the truth to serve its own ends.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discover Books.
Faber & Faber. Hardcover. GOOD. Gently used may contain ex-library markings, possibly has some light highlighting, textual notations, and or underlining. Text is still easily readable.

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Ships from Reno, NV. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside.