Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed. |
The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence. |
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. |
The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance. |
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations. |
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. |
These hooligans who were inside the police cordon are obviously allowed in by the authorities. |
They are being used the way Hitler used his organization to harass people, in the most dangerous fashion. |
This is absolutely ridiculous. They (the government) should deal with their problems instead of trying to find someone else to blame. |