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Written by Aung San Suu Kyi - Narrated by Alan Clements & Kate Wheeler - Nonfiction - Audio-Original Recording - 2 CASSETTES - 2.2 hours

Publisher, Sounds True (January 1999)

If Aung San Suu Kyi could have made this recording herself, there would be no need for it. Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership in a nonviolent struggle to end the rule of dictatorship in Burma, she endured six years of house arrest – and faced the possibility of re-arrest at any moment during these conversations with journalist Alan Clements. Her fate as of this writing is still far from certain.

Yet this is no mere political manifesto. Aung San Suu Kyi speaks of her parents' upbringing and her Buddhist beliefs; of the role of meditation in her life; of the compassion that inspires her nonviolent activism; of her refusal to fear SLORC (Burmese ruling faction) and her inability to hate them. She is, she insists, no different from the rest of us - and therein may lie her greatest power to inspire us.