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Aung San Suu Kyi: Liberty

The Reith Lectures Securing Freedom
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The Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, explores the human aspiration to be free and what it means in the first of the 2011 Reith Lecture series, 'Securing Freedom'.

The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, explores what freedom means in the first of the 2011 Reith Lecture series, 'Securing Freedom'.

Reflecting on her own experience under house arrest in Burma, she explores the universal human aspiration to be free and the spirit which drives people to dissent. She also comments on the Arab Spring, comparing the event that triggered last December's revolution in Tunisia with the death of a student during a protest in Burma in 1988.

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Fri 15 Jul 2011 06:00
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