Table of Contents

The Inheritance: My Father; My Country and People; Intellectual Life in Burma and India under Colonialism; Literature and Nationalism in Burma. The Struggle: In Quest of Democracy; Freedom from Fear; The True Meaning of Boh; Speech to a Mass Rally at the Shwedagon Pagoda; The Objectives; In the Eye of the Revolution; Two Letters to Amnesty International; Letter to the Ambassadors; The Role of the Citizen in the Struggle for Democracy; Open Letter to the UN Commission on Human Rights; Dust and Sweat; The Need for Solidarity among Ethnic Groups; The People Want Freedom; The Agreement to Stand for Election; The 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace; The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech; Towards True Refuge; The Need for Dialogue; Empowerment for a Culture of Peace and Development. Appreciations: A Flowering of the Spirit - Memories of Suu and Her Family by Ma Than E; Suu Burmese by Ann Pasternak Slater; Aung San Suu Kyi - Is She Burma's Woman of Destiny? by Josef Silverstein; Aung San Suu Kyi and the Peaceful Struggle for Human Rights in Burma by Philip Kreager; The Spirit of Reconciliation.

About the Author

Aung San Suu Kyi is the leader of the struggle for human rights and democracy in Burma. In 1990 she was awarded the Thorolf Rafto Prize for Human Rights in Norway and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament and in 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She is also the author of several books, including FREEDOM FROM FEAR, which was edited by her husband, Dr Michael Aris and THE VOICE OF HOPE, both published in Penguin.