Celebrating Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 64th Birthday...

1. On Your 64 thSpecial Day
from your world
“sons and daughters”
We celebrate with you

2. The people adore her.
Everywhere she goes, they
bedeck her with flowers
–roses, jasmine, chrysanthemums…
Terry McCarthy, reporting in The Independent, 2 May 1989
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

3. quot;I can't meet you one by
one, but I hope to meet you all
in better days.quot;…
Thanking foreign envoys at her 3rd Day trial, 20 May 2009
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

4. I look upon these past 6 years
as having been a chance to
experience the kind of life that
not many people have…
At a press conference after her release in July 1995
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

5. It is my aim, to help the
people in Burma attain
democracy without further
violence or loss of life…
Interview with the London Times, 29 August 1988
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

6. Freedom from fear means;
not just the removal of the
oppression that causes fear
in people’s minds, but a
change in their mindset when
confronted by oppression …
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

7. The quintessential revolution should be:
That the spirit, born of an
intellectual conviction…
of the need for change in
those mental attitudes and
values which shape
the course of
a nation’s development
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

8. A revolution which aims
merely at changing official
policies and institutions with a
view to an improvement in
material conditions has little
chance of genuine success
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

9. Without a revolution of the
spirit, the forces which
produced the iniquities of the
old order would continue to be
operative, posing a constant
threat to the process of
reform and regeneration.
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

10. You shall know the truth
And
The truth shall set you free…
Her favourite scripture, St John 8.32
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

11. In fact one,
could say that
peace is life itself…
Pre recorded by Debbie Stothard of ALTSEAN,
disseminated by the NLD for Women of Burma Day in June 1999
on her 54th Birthday
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

12. According to a number of
psychologists, women are
better able than men to cope
with crisis situations …
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

13. We should use this ability to
bring about peace and
progress to our country, and
to better the condition of
peoples the world over…
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

14. There is a great need for
our women of Burma to use
their capabilities to bring
democracy and human rights
to our country…
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

15. It is no longer possible even
for housewives to keep out
of politics, because politics
has invaded the traditional
domain of housewives…
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

16. The root cause of upward
spiralling commodity prices,
greatly increased charges
for electricity and rising
costs of education and
healthcare is a political one…
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

17. Her personal wish that the
new millennium bring with it;
freedom from fear, and
freedom from want…
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

18. “It was interesting to see
security officials craning to get
a look at someone who is clearly
still a major figure” …
Mark Canning, UK Ambassador to Burma,
on 3rd Day of her trial, 20May 2009
Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

19. Once You were there,
you know the way to
return
where you belong,
they are all waiting
for Suu Kyi now.