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Congress will present Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi its highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal. Officials said the ceremony is scheduled to take place Sept. 19 during Suu Kyi’s visit to the United States. Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace laureate and former political prisoner who was unable to leave her home country for more than two decades. The opposition parliament leader recently was greeted enthusiastically during trips to Thailand and Europe. In addition to the congressional award, Suu Kyi will be presented with the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award on Sept. 21 in New York. The State Department said Suu Kyi would be invited for meetings with U.S. government officials during her visit. Suu Kyi, elected in April, will be feted for her long struggle against military rule in her homeland and for championing democracy. She is revered by Republicans and Democrats, has been a guiding force in U.S. policy toward Myanmar over the past two decades, and has been supportive of the Obama administration’s engagement of the reformist Myanmar President Thein Sein. The U.S. recently suspended investment sanctions that had been in force against Myanmar for 15 years. Suu Kyi cautiously supported that move, but it did expose a rare difference between her views and those of the U.S. government. The U.S. decided to allow U.S. companies to invest with Myanmar’s state oil and gas enterprise. Suu Kyi has opposed foreign companies working with that enterprise because of its lack of openness. Myanmar frees at least 20 political prisoners; opposition leader Suu Kyi urges release of all (click-through for full story) Aung San Suu Kyi accepts Nobel Peace Prize in person [transcript here] Bono will present Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with Amnesty International’s highest honor when she visits Dublin next month. As part of her first international tour in 24 years, the U2 singer and other organizers of an Irish tribute concert announced Wednesday. Suu Kyi is scheduled to visit Dublin on June 18, a day after collecting her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel in 1991, and Amnesty’s Ambassador of Conscience award in 2009. She was unable to claim either award in person until now because she was under house arrest for 15 of the past 24 years and, even when free, afraid to leave Myanmar in case the country’s military junta barred her return. Bono devoted a series of U2’s 2009 concerts to Suu Kyi, demanding her release from house arrest, and unveiled the Amnesty award at one Dublin concert that year. He said the June 18 event would be the first time he’s ever met the 66-year-old pro-democracy activist. “It’s so rare to see grace trump military might, and when it happens we should make the most joyful noise we can,” Bono said in a prepared statement. “Aung San Suu Kyi’s grace and courage have tilted a wobbly world further in the direction of democracy. We all feel we know her, but it will be such a thrill to meet her in person.” Suu Kyi was elected to Parliament in Myanmar, also known as Burma, last month; took her seat May 2; and launched an international tour Tuesday starting in neighboring Thailand. She’s also scheduled to address both houses of the British Parliament during her European tour next month. She is expected to visit Dublin solely to be guest of honor at the concert, called Electric Burma. Bill Shipsey, an Amnesty official organizing the concert, said others taking part would be actress Vanessa Redgrave, the Riverdance troupe, and folk-rock singer Damien Rice. Bob Geldof, like Bono an Irish rocker-turned-humanitarian, also will be involved in the concert. Geldof praised Suu Kyi as a “heroine of dignity, integrity, courage and steely moral vigor (who) lost her freedom and her family in order to gain a nation. Ireland is ennobled by her visit.” Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi agreed on Monday to end her party’s boycott of parliament, setting aside her first major dispute with the government since winning by-elections and clearing the way for what could be an acceleration of reforms. (click-through for full story) Nobel Peace Prize laureate and newly elected lawmaker Aung San Suu Kyi will travel outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years after accepting invitations to visit Norway and Britain in June, her party said on Wednesday. (click-through for full story) Suu Kyi to take seat in Myanmar parliament on April 23 (click-through for full story) Burma celebrates Aung San Suu Kyi’s apparent landslide election victory; Nobel laureate expected to take office for first time after landmark poll that could see end to 50 years of military rule (click-through for full story) Thailand Welcomes Positive Developments in Myanmar (click-through for full story) Clinton, Suu Kyi vow to promote Myanmar reforms (click-through for full story) As Myanmar loosens media controls, one woman’s image is everywhere, from newspapers to magazines to television programmes: pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, or simply “The Lady” as she is known there. (click-through for full story)
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Čelnica oporbe ostaje u pritvoru do daljnjeg Mijanmarska hunta produljila je kućni pritvor oporbenoj čelnici Aung San Suu Kyi, izjavili su diplomati i izvor u mijanmarskoj vladi. Dužnosnik koji je želio ostati anoniman rekao je da je jedan vladin časnik otišao do njezine kuće kako bi joj osobno pročitao odluku o produljenju kućnog pritvora na šest mjeseci. Međutim, jedan diplomat kazao je da je Suu Kyi, dobitnici Nobelove nagrade za mir, pritvor produljen na godinu dana. U zadnjih 18 godina Suu Kyi (62) provela je u zatvoru ili u kućnom pritvoru više od 12 godina. Zadnji je put uhićena, kako joj je objašnjeno, ‘zbog njezine zaštite’, nakon sukoba između njezinih simpatizera i pobornika hunte. Ova odluka mijanmarske hunte vjerojatno će izazvati nezadovoljstvo zapadnih zemalja koje su obećale Mijanmaru pomoć u iznosu od nekoliko desetaka milijuna dolara. (HINA)