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Tag: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

The Fire This Time: Religious Violence in Burma

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; by non-hatred only is hatred appeased. This is an unending truth.
— Dhammapada, 5

On February 27, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was ordered to close all its long-established clinics in Myanmar/Burma. … Read more

Burma’s Opening Door

This piece can also be found on Shambhala SunSpace.

The news from Burma this week is encouraging.  The doors of freedom continue to open.  On January 12, the government of Myanmar and ethnic rebels of the Karen National Union signed

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Burma Back at the Crossroads

18 November 2011

At the Asia-Pacific summit in Indonesia last week, U.S. President Barack Obama said he had spoken with iconic Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who supports increased engagement with Burma/Myanmar. Seeing “flickers of progress” in a … Read more

Aung San Suu Kyi is free — but what happens now?

“Whatever they do to me, that’s between them and me; I can take it. What’s more important is what they are doing to the country.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, 1994

The images of Aung San Suu Kyi greeting thousands of … Read more

Burma Comments — 20 years after the 8-8-88 Uprisings

The following address was given by Alan Senauke on 8.8.08 in Union Square, San Francisco — twenty years after Burma’s 8888 Uprising and one year after the Saffron Revolution.

From what I hear this is a highly auspicious date for … Read more

Grace Under Pressure — The Plight of Burma’s Monks

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as “grace under pressure”—grace which Read more