Perfect Hostage

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"Wintle finds the seeds of her commanding personality An admiring biography of one of the most attractive personalities of our time." —The New York Times Book Review
"Suu Kyi's struggle is one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades. She has become an important symbol in the struggle against oppression." —Norwegian Nobel Committee, upon awarding Suu Kyi the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991
Burma, alsó known as Myanmar, is a country where, as one senior UN ofíicial puts it, "just to turn your head can mean imprisonment or death."
Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the world's foremost inspirational revolutionary leaders. Consid-ered to be Burmas best hope for freedom, she has waged a war of steadfast nonviolent opposi-tion to the country's vicious militant regime. Because of her resistance to the brutality of the Burmese government, she spent twenty-one years under house arrest.
She endured failing health, vilification by the... Tovább

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Biography
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"Wintle finds the seeds of her commanding personality An admiring biography of one of the most attractive personalities of our time." —The New York Times Book Review
"Suu Kyi's struggle is one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades. She has become an important symbol in the struggle against oppression." —Norwegian Nobel Committee, upon awarding Suu Kyi the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991
Burma, alsó known as Myanmar, is a country where, as one senior UN ofíicial puts it, "just to turn your head can mean imprisonment or death."
Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the world's foremost inspirational revolutionary leaders. Consid-ered to be Burmas best hope for freedom, she has waged a war of steadfast nonviolent opposi-tion to the country's vicious militant regime. Because of her resistance to the brutality of the Burmese government, she spent twenty-one years under house arrest.
She endured failing health, vilification by the Burmese média, and cruel imprisonment in one of the world's most dreadfiil and inhumane jails. Suu Kyi fought every hardship the junta could put her through, yet she has never once wavered from her position, never once advocated violence, and persevered in her message of peacefiil resistance at all costs, earning her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, piacing her among the likes of such renowned champions of peace as Gandhi, King, and Mandela. She is a truly heroic revolutionary.
In Perfect Hostage, the most thorough biography of Suu Kyi to date, Justin Wintle telis both the story of the Burmese people and the story of an extraordinary woman who became a hero.
JUSTIN WINTLE is an English author, editor, and journalist who has made contributions to a variety of média outlets. Born Ín London, the son of film and television producer Julián Wintle, he was educated at Stowe School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He is alsó chairman of the Binh Hoa Massacre Trust Fund. Vissza