The CBC news headline says it all: Nobel laureate Suu Kyi hospitalized, house arrest extended one year.
Back in 1990, the people of Burma voted overwhelmingly for Aung San Suu Kyi to lead their country. The military refused to honor the vote, and Suu Kyi has spent most of the intervening decade and a half under house arrest.
Burma is now led by a xenophobic junta that allows little information (and few people) to enter or leave the country. Their repressive policies have succeeded in at least one regard: so little news comes out of Burma that the country rarely makes headlines in the Western hemisphere. The dictatorship escapes the kind of scrutiny that it richly deserves. And a travesty of human rights and democracy quietly continues, unabated.
Learn more about Suu Kyi and Burma at the Canadian Friends of Burma site.
