"Please use your liberty to promote ours" (Aung San Suu Kyi.)
A Buddhist monk leads prayers for Aung San Suu Kyi, at a candle-light vigil held today at Martin Place, Sydney. Prayers were also made by Burmese Christians and Muslims.
Aung San Suu Kyi is the leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, the party which gained 82% of the vote in a general election in 1990. Instead of going on to lead the country's government, she has been imprisoned by Burma's military regime, one way or another, for 10 of the last 15 years. She has been under house arrest since 2003 in the latest stage of her incarceration.
This vigil was held to urge the United Nations to act on the situation, after a report was made by Vaclav Havel and Desmond Tutu and presented to the Security Council.
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Now that's a prisoner of conscience.