Saturday Interview: Aung San Suu Kyi

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Saturday interview: Aung San Suu Kyi

Burma's tireless political campaigner talks about rebuilding the National League for Democracy, the revolutionary power of social media and her love of The Grateful Dead

Polly Toynbee

The Guardian, Saturday 16 April 2011

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  'More people are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves' … Aung San Suu Kyi
  The high fence is back, separating her house from the lake it stands beside – but this time it has been erected by her own people to protect her, not to lock her in. How free is

Aung San Suu Kyi, five months after her 15 years of house arrest ended? Not very; or free as a bird, depending on how you ask the question.

Fragile yet strong as iron, the yellow and white roses in her hair belie her steely resolution. She had not been well when we visited her this week. Though she steps into the room with bright smiles, warmth and grace, her ramrod-straight deportment disguises painful spondylosis of the spine.

Interview continues here:

http://www.guardian....i-polly-toynbee

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