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Monday, May 18, 2009

She is Burma's Nelson Mandela


She has been put under house arrest by Burma's military dictators for 13 years now.

Today, she will again be put on trail and may be sent to five years in prison.

Only because she has been demanding, with the rest of the Burmese people, for democracy in the country. (So realise the value of Indian elections).

She was given the Nobel Prize for Peace but she can't move out of her house. She inspires millions but has been made helpless by the Burmese government.

She studied BA from Delhi's Lady Sri Ram College in the 1960s and later, she also lived in Shimla, as a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in 1987.

Please stand up beside her, as she faces another trail in her fight for democracy.

Read her full profile here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE54H1CG20090518?sp=true

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