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A review by moma
Freedom from Fear by Desmond Tutu, Michael Aris, Ann Pasternak Slater, Josef Silverstein, Ma Than E, Václav Havel, Philip Kreager, Aung San Suu Kyi
4.0
This book contains a couple of essays of Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of Birma's national heroes Aung San, one of the important people behind independence Birma. In 1988 she travels to Birma to be with her ill mother. She supports the struggle of Birma to become a democracy, but the military junta SLORC is seeing her as a threat and are trying everything to stop her. In 1989 they places her under house arrest. The SLORC says she's free to leave to country, but then she can never come back again. Aung San Suu Kyi refuses to go. The 2nd and 3th part of the book are essays about the history and about Aung San Suu Kyi herself.
It was a very interesting book, specially the essays written by Aung San Suu Kyi self. While reading the book I felt often very sad, because it's such a tragic situation she's in. I think she's a very brave and inspiring woman. She absolutely deserved the Nobel Peace Prize she received in 1991, while she was under house arrest.
I was shocked to read that she hasn't seen her sons for so long and that she couldn't go to the funeral of her beloved husband who died in 1999. With her whole (pilgrim)soul, heart she supports altruistic Birma's struggle for freedom and democracy, giving up her own live for it. A friend of her reminds her with a poem by Yeats:
How many loved your moments of glad grace
And loved your beauty with love false and true
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you.
I think we all love that pilgrim soul in Aung San Suu Kyi.
It was a very interesting book, specially the essays written by Aung San Suu Kyi self. While reading the book I felt often very sad, because it's such a tragic situation she's in. I think she's a very brave and inspiring woman. She absolutely deserved the Nobel Peace Prize she received in 1991, while she was under house arrest.
I was shocked to read that she hasn't seen her sons for so long and that she couldn't go to the funeral of her beloved husband who died in 1999. With her whole (pilgrim)soul, heart she supports altruistic Birma's struggle for freedom and democracy, giving up her own live for it. A friend of her reminds her with a poem by Yeats:
How many loved your moments of glad grace
And loved your beauty with love false and true
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you.
I think we all love that pilgrim soul in Aung San Suu Kyi.