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New Delhi The Burmese dissident and Nobel Peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, marked her release from six years of house arrest in Rangoon by calling for talks with the military regime which had kept her imprisoned. In a call for national reconciliation with Burma's military rulers, Ms Suu Kyi said, "We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation." She told a press conference at the rambling family house where she was held, "I, on my part, bear no resentment towards anybody for anything that happened to me during the past six years." A frail, thin woman, Ms Suu Kyi, 50, had spent her detention meditating and reading books on philosophy and religion. Now she is ready to fight for democracy's return. "I would like to take the opportunity to urge authorities to release those of us who still remain in prison," she emphasised. Human rights monitors claim that the military regime, which has ruled Burma since 1962, has jailed over 1,000 Buddhist monks, lawyers, journalists and supporters of Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), which in the 1990 elections won a landslide victory. The junta crushed the party before it could take power. After the press conference, a beaming Ms Suu Kyi peered over the wall of her house and waved to hundreds of delighted well-wishers. Down the road, however, police kept watch on her supporters. Later, she saw the few senior officials of her NLD party who were not in jail or chased into exile. Ms Suu Kyi said she wants to meet members of the ruling military council to establish "a joint approach to the ills besetting the country". In Rangoon, celebrations for her release were discreet, fearful. One student activist, after hearing of Aung San Suu Kyi's release, walked around the university campus. "I went there expecting crowds of joyful students. But there was nothing, no movement. People are still too scared," he told the Independent on the telephone. Many Burmese were perplexed that the local state-controlled media failed to mention the junta's change of heart. "People are picking up what they can on the foreign radio broadcasts and spreading the news after they've prayed at pagodas. It's the safest way to meet in public," the activist said. In Washington, a White House spokesman said that the Clinton administration hoped that the Nobel peace prize-winner's release "signals the Burmese government's commitment to free all political prisoners and engage in a genuine dialogue with all political forces in Burma". The Foreign Office, too, had lobbied hard for Ms Suu Kyi to be set free. She is married to an Oxford academic, Michael Aris, and their two children hold British passports. The generals, perhaps, are no longer scared of this demure but strong- willed woman. During Ms Suu Kyi's captivity, the ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) has crushed all dissent. The democratic forces she led to the 1990 election victory are scattered, while the various ethnic rebel groups operating in the jungles along Burma's borders have either been partially smashed by the army or lured into signing truces. The younger generals are also abandoning the old economic model which was based on the Buddhist metaphysics and xenophobia of the old dictator, General Ne Win, and which bankrupted Burma. Friends of Ms Suu Kyi say her defiance of the military dictatorship has not ebbed during the past six years. But she noted yesterday that blacks and whites in South Africa were once bitter enemies. "There is more in common between the authorities and we of the democratic forces in Burma than existed between the black and white peoples of South Africa." Section Two, page 2 - More about: - Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma - Dictators - Myanmar
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Burmanska oporbena čelnica Aung San Suu Kyi uputila je u nedjelju, dan nakon što je oslobođena iz kućnog pritvora, poziv na jedinstvo demokratskih snaga u Mianmaru i time najavila svoj povratak na političku scenu nakon sedam godina odsutnosti Pred otprilike 10 tisuća pristaša okupljenih ispred sjedišta Nacionalne lige za demokraciju (NLD) u Jangonu, Suu Kyi je poručila da 'ne mrzi one koji su je zatočili' i naglasila da želi raditi sa svima 'koji žele dobro ovoj zemlji i demokraciji'. 'Vjerujem u ljudska prava. Vjerujem u slobodu govora koja je osnova demokracije', rekla je dobitnica Nobelove nagrade za mir. Okupljeni su joj odgovorili povicima: 'Živjela Suu Kyi' i 'Volimo te'. Skup su iz zgrade preko puta promatrali pripadnici mianmarske vojske, a agenti obavještajne službe pažljivo su fotografirali što se događa. U kasnijem razgovoru s novinarima Suu Kyi nije željela govoriti o svojim planovima dok ne čuje 'što narod želi'. 'Treba mi energija naroda, želim čuti njegov glas i zatim ćemo odlučiti što ćemo', rekla je. Odbila je reći hoće li pozvati zapadne zemlje da ukinu sankcije Mianmaru, za koje mnogi smatraju da najviše štete običnim ljudima. 'Ako ljudi žele ukidanje sankcija, razmotrit ću to. Burma sada treba pomoć sviju. Zapadnih zemalja, istočnih zemalja, cijelog svijeta', rekla je. I dok brojni sumnjaju da će joj hunta dopustiti da se bavi politikom i pitaju se koje granice će joj odrediti, njezin odvjetnik Nayan Win je potvrdio agenciji France presse da je ona oslobođena bezuvjetno. To je potvrdio i jedan neimenovani dužnosnik vojnog režima. Težak teret je sada na naizgled krhkoj, ali psihološki neuništivoj 65-godišnjoj Suu Kyi u kojoj njezini sljedbenici i dalje vide jedinu nadu za demokraciju, pišu agencije. Sljedeći tjedni su od ključnog značenja za Suu Kyi, dodaje se, jer ona mora ponovo upoznati zemlju od koje je od 2003. bila u potpunosti odsječena. Njezino oslobođenje u subote izazvalo je duboko, ali oprezno olakšanje međunarodne zajednice. Svjetski čelnici pozdravili su njezino oslobađanje, uz ocjenu da se to trebalo dogoditi puno prije i uz zahtjev da se na slobodu puste svi politički zatvorenici u Mianmaru. - Sviđa vam se članak? Preporučite ga prijateljima putem ovih servisa: Pošaljite mailom