In Long-Overdue Speech, Dissident Says Nobel Opened Her Heart
NY Times excerpt
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in Oslo on Saturday.
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She said the prize “had made me real once again; it had drawn me back into the wider human community,” and it had given the oppressed people of Burma, now Myanmar, and its dispersed refugees, new hope. “To be forgotten,” Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi added, “is to die a little.” In a quiet, throaty voice on Saturday she asked the world not to forget other prisoners of conscience, both in Myanmar and around the world, other refugees, others in need, who may be suffering twice over, she said, from oppression and from the larger world’s “compassion fatigue.”