On Your 64th Special Dayfrom your

world“sons and

daughters”We celebrate

with you

Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

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

"I can't meet you one by one,

but I hope to meet you all

in better days."…

Thanking foreign envoys at her 3rd Day trial, 20 May 2009

Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

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

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

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

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

The quintessential revolution should be:

Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

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

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

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

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

According to a number of

psychologists, women are better able than men to

cope with crisis

situations …

Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

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

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

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

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

Her personal wish that the

new millennium

bring with it; freedom from

fear, and freedom from

want…

Jeg – Sydney Australia - 30 May’09

“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

Once You were there, you know the way to

returnwhere you

belong,they are all

waitingfor Suu Kyi

now.