Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Foreword to the First Edition by Václav Havel

Foreword to the Second Edition by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Introduction by Michael Aris

PART ONE: The Inheritance

1 My Father

2 My Country and People

3 Intellectual Life in Burma and India under Colonialism

4 Literature and Nationalism in Burma

PART TWO: The Struggle

5 In Quest of Democracy

6 Freedom from Fear

7 The True Meaning of Boh

8 Speech to a Mass Rally at the Shwedagon Pagoda

9 The Objectives

10 In the Eye of the Revolution

11 Two Letters to Amnesty International

12 Letter to the Ambassadors

13 The Role of the Citizen in the Struggle for Democracy

14 Open Letter to the UN Commission on Human Rights

15 Dust and Sweat

16 The Need for Solidarity among Ethnic Groups

17 The People Want Freedom

18 The Agreement to Stand for Election

19 The 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace

20 The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

21 Towards a True Refuge

22 The Need for Dialogue

23 Empowerment for a Culture of Peace and Development

PART THREE: Appreciations

24 A Flowering of the Spirit: Memories of Suu and Her Family by Ma Than E

25 Suu Burmese by Ann Pasternak Slater

26 Aung San Suu Kyi: Is She Burma’s Woman of Destiny? by Josef Silverstein

27 Aung San Suu Kyi and the Peaceful Struggle for Human Rights in Burma by Philip Kreager

28 The Spirit of Reconciliation

List of Contributors

Index