Nobel Laureates Demand Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Release in Burma

December 2, 2004 -(DVB) Three Nobel peace prize winners on 2 December joined an international chorus of protest over the extended house arrest of fellow laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) prolonged by another 12 months the house arrest on 29 November prompting an international chorus of condemnation.

The three Nobel peace laureates, Wangari Maathai, Shirm Ebadi and Jody Williams were taking part in a panel discussion on peace in Africa at Nairobi.

Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who won this year's peace prize for decades of environmental work demanded that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi be freed and freedom and democracy returns to her country, and urged the international community to exert more pressure on that regime.

Jody Williams who won the prize in 1997 with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines also urged the international community to do more to support Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. She met Daw Aung San Suu Kyi before the notorious Dipeyin incident that occurred on 30 May 2003 at upper Burma.

Shirn Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist who won the prize in 2003 for her work on behalf of women and children in her country called for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s unconditional release.

From: http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=3617