It was just last year during my travels to Brussels where I saw protest for freedom in Iran, and banners around the European Union headquaters demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi,rightful leader of Burma now known as Myanmar, held in exile.
It has been quite awhile that I have been following the developments surrounding the house arrest of 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who has been under house confinement for the past 15 out of 21 years by the suppresive military dictatorship of Senior General Than Shwe (tied winner of my international scum of the year along with North Korea's Kim Jong-Il), and I'm very happy to say that as of November 13, 2010 she has been released. This is the beconing of a new beginning for Burma, and a very bright day in this ever darkening world.
Her release comes just on the heels of the 2010 general elections results in Burma, a beutiful country tarnished by the selfish, stagnant, and repulsive rule by one of the world's top ten most evil dictators( why is Asia so prominant in the ranking of worst dictators? a la China and NK and Myanmar, well I guess that is the price you have to pay for progress, or what one deems progress ).
Yay!
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