Aung San Suu Kyi’s third day in Washington saw her meet with members of
the Burmese community and speak to Amnesty International.
She met with Burmese monks, who
flew to the United States from Burma, and Burmese-Americans from the Washington
area during the morning.
“There’s a great future for
Burma, provided she’s able to succeed in the next election,” Burmese-American
Bilal Raschid told Voice of America (VOA).
Another Burmese native said:
“When we left Burma, we thought we would always go back to retire there and I
never thought the moment would come because it just seemed like such a faraway
goal and at this time, this is a possibility.”
A poignant moment occurred when
Suu Kyi called up Toe Lwin, who joined others to save her in 2003 when a mob
attacked her convoy and tried to assassinate her. After that, Toe Lwin escaped to the United
States.
“She said she wanted me to come back to
Burma. Yes, I agreed with her, and I
really want to go back to Burma,” Lwin said, according to VOA.
On Burma’s future, she told her
fellow natives: “We need to work together with military, various groups and
ethnic nationalities. We need to be
cautious but not to have doubt. Being
cautious, being fully aware is totally different from keeping doubt. Doubt will never help us to move forward.”
In a speech to Amnesty
International, she talked about youth in Burma: “It’s not only a matter of
making sure that political prisoners are free, you, the young have to get to
the root of why there are political prisoners,” she said.
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