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The Lady And The Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi
Peter Popham’s major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the world’s greatest exponents of non-violent political defiance since Mahatma Gandhi, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only four years after her first experience of politics.
In April 1988, Suu Kyi returned from Britain to Burma to nurse her sick mother but, within six months, found herself the unchallenged leader of the largest popular revolt in her country’s history. When the party she co-founded won a landslide victory in Burma’s first free elections for thirty years, she was already under house arrest and barred from taking office by the military junta.
Since then, ‘The Lady’ has set about transforming her country ethically as well as politically, displaying dazzling courage in the process. Under house arrest for 15 of the previous 20 years, she has come close to being killed by her political enemies and her commitment to peaceful revolution has come at extreme personal cost.
In November 2010, after fraudulent elections in which she played no part, Suu Kyi was again freed. She was greeted by ecstatic crowds but only time will tell what role this remarkable woman will have in the future of her country.
Burmese Girls
Burmese Girls is a delightful window into the relatively unknown world of growing up in Burma. It weaves a wonderfully vivid story from the early years of a family full of gems, ghosts and ayahs and then with the military dictatorship the shock of leaving a tropical paradise to settle in the cold, grey and austere Britain of the sixties. Their young lives are transformed from tranquillity and happiness to the shocking fate of immigrants victimized by the racism so prevalent in the Enoch Powell years. Fortunately, this does not stop our Burmese Girls who soon conquer all.
Burmese Girls is funny, fabulous and frightening, but also tells the sadder story of Burma today, where democracy is crushed, monks disappeared and poverty endemic. And yet the flame of the Burmese people burns as strong as ever. Burmese girls is a bright star.
Denise O’Leary Playwright
“a wonderful book, touching and amusing, highly recommended” Mark Farmaner - Burma Campaign UK
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Signed copies of Zoya Phan’s autobiography available now!
“Little Daughter” is the extraordinary autobiography of Zoya Phan, who was forced to flee Burma and is now a high profile activist campaigning for freedom for her homeland.
Zoya is from the Karen ethnic group in Burma. When Burmese army soldiers attacked her village, she and her family were forced to flee. They hid in the jungle for weeks before finding their way to a refugee camp in Thailand. She is now a refugee living in London, and is Campaigns Manager at Burma Campaign UK.
The book is a great way to learn more about Burma through the life story of Zoya.
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Abhaya Burma’s Fearlessness
For more than 50 years the plight of Burma’s political prisoners has shocked the world. At present, more than 2,000 political prisoners including monks, students, journalists, lawyers, elected Members of Parliament and over 400 members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party, The National League for Democracy, are incarcerated in the most horrendous conditions in Burma’s notorious prisons. Across the world, hundreds of Burma’s former political prisoners, have come together to raise awareness of the tragic plight of their colleagues still detained in jail.
Photographed with their right hand raised, palm upturned facing the camera, the name of a current political prisoner is shown written on their hand. The simple symbolic gesture of the Buddhist Abhaya Mudhra with the name of a colleague currently suffering silently in prison written on it, becomes a combined act of silent protest, remembrance and fearlessness.
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Voice of Hope: Audio Book
An audio download of the book The Voice of Hope - it is the most wide-ranging collection of Aung San Suu Kyi’s views on one of the most inspiring political/spiritual revolutions of our time. Aung San Suu Kyi’s words are read by Alan Clements, the coauthor of The Voice of Hope and a former Buddhist monk in Burma.
Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant
Than Shwe is one of the world’s most brutal dictators, presiding over a military regime that persists in repressing and brutalizing its own people. Until now, his story has not been told.
Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant provides the first-ever account of Than Shwe’s journey from postal clerk to dictator, analyzing his rise through the ranks of the army, his training in psychological warfare, his belief in astrology, his elimination of rivals and his ruthless suppression of dissent. Drawing on the insights of Burma Army defectors, international diplomats and others, Benedict Rogers provides a compelling account of the reclusive and xenophobic character of Than Shwe, and life in Burma under his rule.
Everything is Broken: The Untold Story of Disaster Under Burma’s Military Regime
On May 2, 2008, a massive tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. It wreaked untold havoc, but the ruling generals, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, blocked international aid from entering the country, and provided little relief themselves.
Emma Larkin, who has been travelling to and secretly reporting on Burma for years, managed to arrange a visa in those frenzied days and arrived to find chaos. Hundreds of thousands of Burmese citizens had no food, drinking water or basic shelter.
Burma VJ DVD
The award-winning documentary ‘Burma VJ’ tells the remarkable story of the brave young video journalists who, using hidden cameras, put their lives on the line to tell the real story of the 2007 uprising in Burma and the subsequent crackdown by the ruling military regime. They now face up to 65 years in prison for simply recording the events in the film.
The Voice of Hope by Aung San Suu Kyi
The Voice of Hope is the most wide-ranging collection of Aung San Suu Kyi’s views on one of the most inspiring political/spiritual revolutions of our time. Now updated with fascinating new material, this extraordinary book not only gives an unprecedented glimpse into the heart and mind of one the world’s most courageous leaders but also offers the global community an impassioned call to action.
Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings by Aung San Suu Kyi
This collection of writings reflects Aung San Suu Kyi’s greatest hopes and fears for her people and her concern about the need for international cooperation, and gives poignant and humorous reminiscences as well as independent assessments of her role in politics. Containing speeches, letters and interviews, these writings give a voice to Burma’s ‘woman of destiny’, who was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi
In these fifty-two pieces Aung San Suu Kyi paints a vivid, poignant yet fundamentally optimistic picture of her native land. One woman’s vision, humanity and commitment to political and ethnic harmony won her party an overwhelming victory in the elections of May 1990; every facet of her personality is powerfully displayed here.
Courage: Eight Portraits by Gordon Brown
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown explores the lives of eight outstanding twentieth-century figures including Aung San Suu Kyi. These eight heroes are very different people, with very different strengths and frailties, but all share an inspirational courage that Gordon Brown celebrates in these fascinating and moving portraits.
Unplayed Piano by Damien Rice
To celebrate Aung San Suu Kyi’s 62rd birthday, Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan released a new single - ‘Unplayed Piano’. The song was written for Suu Kyi following a visit by Damien Rice to Burma in July 2004.
For the Lady [CD] by Various Artists
R.E.M, Pearl Jam, Coldplay, Travis, Paul McCartney, Sting, Peter Gabriel, U2 and others have contributed tracks to a benefit album for the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi. The album features a song banned by Burma’s military regime, “Walk On,” which U2 dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi on their last album and a song in Burmese written by a jailed student democracy activist.
A Land Without Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma’s Karen People by Benedict Rogers
The gentle Karen, a tribe in Burma’s eastern regions, call their country “a land without evil”. They number between four and five million, and have been fighting for half a century to keep their land and identity. Burma today, and Karen State in particular, is a land torn apart by evil. It is a land terrorised by a military regime which to this day perpetrates a catalogue of crimes against humanity. This compassionate but unflinching account of the Karen’s predicament is an important step in galvanising Western opinion about this ongoing act of genocide.
Beyond Rangoon DVD
In a movie based on real events tries to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband and son and goes on vacation with her sister to Burma. After losing her passport at a political rally, she is left on her own for a few days, during which time she falls in with students fighting for democracy. She and their leader, U Aung Ko, travel through Burma, whilst witnessing many bloody acts of repression by the dictatorship, in an attempt to escape to Thailand.
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
Teza once electrified the people of Burma with his protest songs against the dictatorship. Arrested by the Burmese secret police in the days of mass protest, he is seven years into a twenty-year sentence in solitary confinement, cut off from his family and contact with other prisoners.
Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity by Martin Smith
This book charts the rise of modern political parties, unravels the complexities of the long-running insurgencies waged by opposition groups, and explains how a fertile and potentially prosperous Asian country has become one of the world’s poorest. This revised and updated edition of the standard work on 40 years of Burmese independence includes a new chapter on the 1990 elections and events since.
The Voice of Hope is the most wide-ranging collection of Aung San Suu Kyi’s views on one of the most inspiring political/spiritual revolutions of our time.
The Internationally Acclaimed Book, Now Available as an MP3 Audio Download.
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