8 Nobel Winners Petition Myanmar
Eight winners of the Nobel Peace Prize demanded Wednesday that Myanmar’s generals unconditionally release Aung San Suu Kyi, a fellow winner of the award.
The Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader, called for a tougher line, including an arms embargo, against the junta that has held the democracy campaigner under house arrest since July, 1989.
Aung San Suu Kyi won the peace prize in 1991 for her resistance to the regime that seized power in Myanmar, formerly Burma, after brutally suppressing a pro-democracy uprising in 1988.
Myanmar’s generals have condemned the laureates’ mission as interference and refused to let them into the country.
The other laureates besides the Dalai Lama are former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Northern Ireland’s Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina, Ross Daniels representing Amnesty International and Donna Kyle Anderton, representing the American Friends Service Committee.
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