Profile: Impact of Aung San Suu Kyi's efforts for peace in Myanmar

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LIANE HANSEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
06-19-2005
Profile: Impact of Aung San Suu Kyi's efforts for peace in Myanmar

Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi marks her 60th birthday today. Suu Kyi is under house arrest in the center of Myanmar capital Yangon, formerly Rangoon. She's had huge moral support inside and outside Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma, but as Suu Kyi turns 60, some observers are changing their view and saying that her brave and uncompromising stand and her support of Western sanctions has had ...

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