moxa /moksha = release, freedom, liberation. this freedom is the birthright and abides in the core of all beings even when the outer circumstance is restrained or oppressed. some people hold a living mirror for us to get in clear focus of what freedom is and means to us as "free people".
Aung San Suu Kyi Burmese pronunciation: [àuɴ sʰáɴ sṵ tɕì]; (born 19 June 1945) free at last after 7 and a half years under house arrest in Myanmar, formerly Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won 59% of the national votes and 80% (392 of 492) of the seats in Parliament, this implies Suu Kyi was elected Prime Minister.
Aung San Suu Kyi is the third child and only daughter of Aung San, considered to be the father of modern-day Burma.
"i got a telephone in my bosom and i can call him up from my heart, when i need my brother, when i need my my mother..."
Aung San Suu Kyi derives her name from three relatives – "Aung San" from her father, "Suu" from her grandmother and "Kyi" from her mother.She is frequently called Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Daw is not part of her name, but is an honorific, similar to madam, for older, revered women, literally meaning "aunt" She is also often referred to as Daw Suu by the Burmese. She is a Theravada Buddhist.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi had been detained for 15 of the past 21 years as political prisoner. On the evening of November 13th, 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest. This was the date her detention had been set to expire according to a court ruling in August 2009.
CHRONOLOGY OF AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S DETENTION
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/11/12/burma-chronology-aung-san-suu-kyi-s-detention
http://www.hrw.org/asia/burma
Freedom is commonly known as a state of being free from government oppression. Religion often defines it as "Free will", the ability to choose one's own destiny, that one's actions are not pre-determined.
Liberty, the ideological concept of having the right and ability to do as one chooses. there are as many ways to be free from oppression as there are ways to oppress. this is testament to our tenacity of free will as sentient beings.
Amnesty International quotes that there are over 2,200 other political prisoners who are still behind bars in Myanmar prisons. "The release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi must not make them forget other prisoners of conscience." Amnesty secretary general Salil Shetty said.
Meanwhile Zoya Phan, the Burma Campaign UK organisation's international co-ordinator, sounded a note of caution about the regime's motives in freeing Aung San Suu Kyi.
"The release of Aung San Suu Kyi is about public relations, not democratic reform," she said.
"I am thrilled to see our democracy leader free at last, but the release is not part of any political process.
"Instead it is designed to get positive publicity for the dictatorship after the blatant rigging of elections on November 7.
"We must not forget the thousands of other political prisoners still suffering in Burma's jails."
- AFP
http://political-prisoners.net/
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