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 66^th 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.