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From: International Herald Tribune | Date: June 19, 2005 | Copyright information

International Herald Tribune
06-19-2005
On Sunday, Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the nonviolent democratic movement in Myanmar, turns 60. She has been detained for nearly 10 years by the military junta in power, who changed the country's name from Burma. To this day, she is the only Nobel Peace Prize laureate to be deprived of freedom. We are now taking action as we share with Aung San Suu Kyi the privilege of having been awarded the title of doctor honoris causa from one of the oldest European universities, the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). Together with ...

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