"Before duty calls:newly released photos of Aung San Suu Kyi as wife & mother. Thoughts and prayers

[snagglepuss]

go out to her.


It is worthwhile to live
and fight courageously
for sacred ideals.

O blow ye evil winds
into my body's fire
my soul you'll never unravel.

Even though disappointed a thousand times
or fallen in the fight
and everything would worthless seem,

I have lived amidst eternity --
Be grateful, my soul --
My life was worth living.

He who was pressed from all sides
but remained victorious in spirit
is welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fetters
giving wings to his mind
is entering into the golden age of
the victorious.

- Norbert Capek

Cmposed in Dresden Prison in 1941, shortly before he was transferred to Dachau concentration camp, where he died in October, 1942




"Aung San Suu Kyi is known to the world as a human rights activist who has spent 14 of the last 20 years under house arrest as punishment for demanding democracy in her home country. But in these photographs Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is shown not as the fearless campaigner who has given up her liberty for the sake of her nation, but as a young woman in love and a doting mother.

Many of these pictures come from the private collection of her late husband, the Oxford academic Michael Aris, who died from prostate cancer in 1999. Almost all are today published for the first time, and now belong to the private Aris family trust, which has released them to the Guardian to mark and celebrate Aung San Suu Kyi's 65th birthday tomorrow."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/jun/17/aung-san-suu-kyi-photographs













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