Aung San Suu Kyi asks for "peace" for her birthday.
(June, 21, 2011) Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi sees peace as the
most important value for the development of the country and she called for cooperation
to achieve that goal. In a speech on her birthday at the headquarters of the National
League for Democracy she said "My birthday wish is that we can all live in peace."
On her 66th birthday on Sunday the Nobel Peace Laureate called on
all parties to cooperate for the good of the country and its development. But unfortunately
there are repeated cases of violence, especially in the north, where the conflict
between the Burmese government army and Kachin rebel militias has exploded once again.
Human rights activists have denounced the recent cases of rape and murder of ethnic
minority women at the hands of a group of soldiers. The pro-human rights activist
group Kachin Women's Association Thailand has denounced the rape of seven women from
the ethnic minority at the hands of government troops stationed in the area to counter
the activities of Kachin Independent Army (KIA) rebel militias. Following the rape,
four of them died.