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The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner |
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Aung San Suu Kyi's first-ever biography bends over backward in the name of "balance." Like almost all visitors to this embattled country, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Barbara Victor entered Burma (now called Myanmar) under the auspices of its government, a brutal dictatorship that regularly jails and tortures its dissidents. The situation presents certain intrinsic dilemmas, considering that Victor was never able to interview the subject of her book, the most famous dissident of all: Aung San Suu Kyi, the beloved "Lady" of Burma's democracy movement. Nonetheless, Victor provides an excellent overview of Aung San Suu Kyi's career and achievements, in particular her turbulent early life. Her account makes clear the strong influence of Aung San Suu Kyi's father, a revered military hero who was assassinated in 1947 in the struggle for Burmese independence when she was only two years old. Especially in contrast to Aung San Suu Kyi's almost saintly self-sacrifice, the Burmese junta (cursed with the movie-villain acronym SLORC) tends to come off as almost cartoonishly evil. Victor's access to top-level Burmese generals precludes such simplistic analysis, but what's fascinating is how the regime consistently betrays itself, exposing its own corruption and moral decay even as it twists the truth to serve its own ends.
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