TWO DECADES AUNG SAN SUU KYI ACCEPTS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE (350 hits)
YOUR WORLD NEWS JUNE 2012 15th Day Dharamshala
After 25 years of being held from her Nobel Peace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi will finally have the opportunity to speak and receive the most highly acclaimed award of human courage. Suu Kyi is scheduled to make a key speech in Oslo on Saturday, June 16, 2012. The 66 year old leader raised pro-democracy in her country of China and has spent most the 25 years under house arrest but was freed in 2010 still under strick observation. Finally, the peace honor found a seat in Burma's paraliment this year. After accepting the prize and delivering the speech the admired leader of peace will continue with a 17 day --five country tour covering Switzerland, Great Britian, Ireland and France. Aung San Suu Kyi won the peace prize in 1991.
"Peace does have a reward and sometimes the real prize is a virture of patience."--MIIS