Aung San Suu Kyi

"In many authoritarian regimes, one hearing organ is missing," he said, tugging at his ear. "Like Burma," he added, referring to Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained opposition leader and fellow Nobel peace prize laureate. "Communist hardliners believe that power comes from the barrel of a gun,"

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In a tantalizing announcement earlier this month, Min Lwin, a director-general of Burma's Foreign Ministry claimed to the Associated Press that "there is a plan to release [Aung San Suu Kyi] soon

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"The letter is very significant. It clearly shows Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's willingness to work with the government in the interest of the nation," said her National League for Democracy party spokesman Nyan Win.

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It clearly shows Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's willingness to work with the government in the interest of the nation," said her National League for Democracy party spokesman Nyan Win.

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"It's a good thing, I accept that, but it must be the right engagement on both sides of the junta and the opposition," Suu Kyi said in a statement released through her attorney and party spokesman U Nyan Win. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Wednesday that the United States will try to directly engage with the military leaders of Myanmar, also known as Burma, without abandoning its existing sanctions on the southeast Asian country. "We believe that sanctions remain important as part of our policy, but by themselves, they have not produced the results that had been hoped for on behalf of the people of Burma,"

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"It's very ugly that the person who caused the problem was released, but the three people in the house remain detained," Suu Kyi said, according to attorney Nyan Win who visited her Monday. Yettaw flew with Webb to neighboring Thailand on a U.S. government plane Sunday and underwent two days of medical tests at a private Bangkok hospital. Webb said Yettaw had suffered a "medical incident"

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In her famous "Freedom from fear" speech of 1990, Aung San Suu Kyi said that what was "eroding the patience of a traditionally good-natured, quiescent peoplea ¦ was the humiliation of a way of life disfigured by corruption and fear."

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"Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said the conviction was totally unfair and the court's assessment of the case was not just," lawyer Nyan Win said. "Daw"

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Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, Burma's popular leader under detention for years, once said that "it is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it…"

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