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Sunday, June 17, 2012

20 years after award: Suu Kyi holds Nobel Prize speech

In 1991 opposition leader Suu Kyi to take the award is not personally opposed. She was under house arrest. More than 20 years after it was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi held her acceptance speech in Oslo. In 1991, she could not personally accept the award because the military junta placed her under house arrest. The speech on Saturday was the culmination of the first trip to Europe for almost 25 years, Suu Kyi after she had spent 1989-2010 a total of 15 years under house arrest. "Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal," said the 66-year-old. Even in Burma there are still hostile confrontations. By the Government initiated, careful transition to democracy is to be treated with caution. Still political prisoners are sitting in prisons. "As the most famous inmates were released, it is feared that the remnant, the unknowns are forgotten." Suu Kyi noted that it was only a few days to "arson and murder" came into Burma. She called the incident but not specifically by name. In the north-west of the country escalated a decades-old conflict between Buddhists and Muslim minority. 30,000 people fleeing the violence, officially killed 50th However, it is feared that the death toll is much higher in reality. Suu Kyi said she hoped that truce agreement would lead to political solutions. Suu Kyi had managed to get in early at a historic election to the Parliament a mandate. The country has for half a century of military rule become a civilian president, but also comes from the military. Among his first reforms were initiated.

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