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BURMA, Daw Suu Kyi
     
              1991 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. In 1990 her party, the National League for Democracy, won 85% of parliament's seats, when the military junta (SLORC) arrested and imprisoned her, negating election results.
-- Candace Scharsu
Rangoon, Burma
    Daw Suu Kyi speaking to supporters and sympathizers over the gate of her family home where she's been a prisoner for 18 years. International outcries and economic sanctions haven't freed her, nor altered Burma's human rights violations nor its limitations on personal freedoms.
-- Candace Scharsu
   
 
   
Monsoon in Burma (Myanmar)
   
         
All images copyright©Candace Scharsu 2008