Who is Aung San Suu Kyi? | Rena Pederson | TEDxSMU
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- Ask Rena Pederson how to say hello in Burmese and she can tell you -- Mingalabar!" A world traveler and award-winning writer, Pederson teaches persuasive writing at SMU. She previously worked as a speechwriter and Strategic Communications Advisor at the U.S. Department of State. She also received national recognition as Vice President and Editorial Page Editor at The Dallas Morning News for 16 years. Ms. Pederson was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for nine years and is the author of three books; her book "What's Next?" was featured on the Oprah Winfrey television show.
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She was arrested again today.
Feb 1 2021. The cyclical repeating pattern of dictatorship, censure and violence seems to the character of what we refer to as human civilization. She is one of those warriors who holds a posture that is a counterpoint to the balancing of the scales in terms of compassion and peacefulness vs violence and chaos. Must be destiny that some humans come to play that part on this platform we call earth.
After watching about her detainment in the news... I searched and get to know more of her... She's truly a woman imbued with great morale... A woman of substance, power and compassion...
Now she is detained by military again. Like 1990 😭
China behind this.. sad
Drain the swamp!
@@Gauravkumar-jm4ve Why are you saying that? Our military stopped relation with china. We have better relation with india and russia.
@@99myanmar You know about the Myit Sone Operation,Right?!The Chinese Government literally wanted to take our main source of water for themselves.
This is so heartwarming to hear the lady's story again and again. I tear up everytime, knowing the sacrifices she has done for the country. Listening to this video at this difficult times for burma, encourages me to keep fighting. I wish for the release of the lady and failure of dictatorship everyday😔🙏🇲🇲
She is our Hero!❤️ our MOM❤️! We, all the citizens of Myanmar love her so so so.......Much!!❤️
Thank you very much Rena for sharing about our Lady Suu at TEDxSMU. We hope the people around the world get to know about her through this programme. She is an iconic of democracy. She shows us the value of democracy by scarifying the entire of her life for Burma. So we got to know how to protect it. Until today, we still keep protecting the democracy and we believe someday we can restore it.
I am from Myanmar. I am so happy that the National League for Democracy by Daw Aung San Su Kyi won this years election. She is our hero. I hated the 8888 movement even though I wasn't born yet. I love her.
Good times weren't they? Before all the interferences and killings of military.
Thank you Rena, you talked about "The Lady" in short, sweet and so beautifully articulated way!
She mas been criticized and maligned for her complacency and even cooperation in the genocide taking place in Myanmar. I imagine that she is not guilty of this...but that had she opposed directly the military she would have been arrested or killed already. She walks the razor's edge of a hostile environment. Let's send her love and support with our thoughts and hearts, rather than doubt and judging. Would any one want to be in her position? She was under house arrest for 15 years, without her husband and children. Let's honor her sacrifices.
Thank you so much for this statement. As a citizen of Myanmar, I spend quite a good deal of time having to explain why she chose what she had to do to many commenters in every social media platform. And you are right, she was made to defend them so as to prevent a coup being conducted and causing further damage. But us citizens are also to be blamed for failing to speak up about the Rohyingyas' crisis back when it happened ( also because the military brainwashed the lot of us to believe the Rakhines were attacked by the Rohyingyas) . Such negligence will never happen again, we promise you. Thank you for speaking and knowing the truth.
Yep.
After the coup, it now makes sense why she was so reluctant to criticize the military.
Bro I think she was trapped in the bad term called genocide. She didn't have the power to do it. She had to stand against the crime that she didn't even do.
Perfectly said!
This comment needs more recognition!
Such a great woman, I'm crying right now 🤧 sending my prayers to Myanmar and her 💕🇧🇹
She is my admire.and she is from my country.
I am so proud of her.
you should be ashamed
You are proud of someone leading genocide??
@@abubakarali2919 we or she never ever intended, introducing or support genocide in Myanmar. But I saw the news mostly happened in your region or in your country
Thank you very much and we really appreciate it. Yeh because of her our hope are still existing. God bless her!
Hope of doing genocide???
2020, what do u think about her now?! That's what happens when the suppressed gain power without control! They turn into the monster they had most feared.
God bless Myanmar and their bravery in fighting for democracy.
Still we r fighting for our democracy
@@kyawnyarna3196 democracy sucks!
@@kyawnyarna3196 stop talking nonsense. You know she was a cruel leader. She didnt resepect humanright at all. she jailed many people for critising her on the facebook.
Lmao look at all those nuts out there who literally has infected with lack of balls suffering
@@kyawnyarna3196 anyway, aung san su kyi steal the election, she must be punish.
aung san suu kyi never gives up as well she encourages people to be brave like her. i am just a 13 years old teenage boy. I may be still young i may still not understand about democracy but what i really do is that i admire her personality, kindness, humility and last her bravery, this is what we appreciate about. i have watched her speech and interviews about her. i am proud to be a citizen of burma. thanks for your presentation Ms Rena Pederson. may god bless you.
My family has always supported her since she came to burma. I was born in 2004. I've always heard of her stories from my grandparents and parents since i was young. Still, this video made me cry after i have heard the whole storyline again. How great would Myanmar be today if she was freed sooner? Eventhough she's 75 this year, she is trying her utmost to save us. I really love and respect u, AMAY SUU...
one day must be soldiers lay down under the Aung San Suu Kyi's power
Our Legand Mother Suu❤
"She would not give up.
She'll never let her people down"😢😢
These lines touched my heart😢💔
It's true. This woman sacrificed the whole life of her for us and still now😢
Our grandparents were fighting for DEMOCRACY in 1962🇲🇲
Our parents were fighting for DEMOCRACY in 1988🇲🇲
Our brothers and sisters were fighting for DEMOCRACY in 2008.🇲🇲
We are still fighting for our DEMOCRACY in 2021 to 2023.🇲🇲
But this time will be the last time for fighting against military junta. We will win surely this time.
We always pray to our lord Buddha 🙏🙏 for our woman Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and our citizens to be free under the military rule 🇲🇲💪
(FREEDOM FROM FEAR)
I was reading about The Lady a while ago. I have never admired someone the way I admire her and someday I hope to visit the once forbidden land of Burma to see it for myself.
Shaheen Beeharry She's showing her true colours now
Pmag86 you're right, but she's been showing them for a while. This same woman said in 2010 that she is first and foremost a politician and not a human rights icon. She is guilty for permitting a program of ethnic cleansing and is in no way deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize which needs to be stripped from her immediately.
Her noble price should be taken back.
She is howing her true colours now.
There is a movie of THE LADY, you can check it out......
Stop spreading fake news. Comment repliers.
You don't know the truth. You don't witness the true story behind the media.
Thank you very much for speaking out for Burma. Thank you very much!
Dear Ms Rena Pederson .We really appreciated and thanks so much to you for this Video about "OUR LADY " .May God Bless you and your family as well --Sincerely Ruby Sein :)
I have always been ashamed to tell everyone that I am from Myanmar so I studied English and only talked with it through my old videos. I never told anyone that I am from Myanmar. No one knew. But what's happening right now in Yangon or Myanmar, makes me feel proud to be a Burmese by knowing how brave our mother is. Now I am not ashamed to tell anyone that I am from Myanmar. Just being from Myanmar makes me feel proud. I will always love my country.
Me too. I was always ashamed to tell someone that I'm from Myanmar. It could be said that I even hated being born in Myanmar. But not anymore, the chaos we're facing make me realize how great of a country Myanmar, and its people are. I'm admiring Mother Su more than ever realizing all of her sacrifices for us instead of knowing only the tip of them. She's a really strong lady. She is and will always be our leader and in our heart for eternity.
She will always be in our heart, always always....
Thanks Rena. We are sure she will be back again for her beloved people against those cowards.
She is phenomenal........awesome...................
More facts in her storyline. She is the best for us
@@Llp348 Our election is already done now. The results are not like other democracy nations ,eg.USA.
That show the people who love her want her so much right in our country. Three times election include d even after 1990, three times won.
Never happen in history like that.
She paid it with her broken-heart
She work it with her lifetime
She stand strong ahead us like a mother.
Thank your for sharing this presentation .✌
thank you. this brought me tears. change is change whether micro or macro. Try taking the lady out of the picture when you think about burma, you'll still be wondering where on the map it is. 2016 election and we have won. By that I meant the people.
THANKS YOU SO MUCH MS RENA PEDERSON.
Ba Sein s
After watching this video, I'm in tearing up. And I am proud of being Burmese because of her. I wish she could have a peaceful life and free from isolation very soon.
Thank you.
I can't believe I didn't know about such a remarkable leader of our time.
Thanks Ms. Pederson
She is she. The mother of my Nation. Ones in a universe. A true light of hope and rebirth.. May she will released from the trap of those monsters who are destroying the country.
She is the best for our country.
thx for making the vid about her honestly she is still underrated
Yess, too underrated
The news is so good👍👍👍
Thank you so much, TEDxSMU. Yes, she is still struggling for our people of Myanmar.
Hats off to Strong and brave lady Aung San Suu Kyi for protecting Myanmar.. Respect her
She is our hero.We love her so much..
Thank you
Please help save Myanmar!
Please put more pressure on Myanmar Military! Please make a video on the topic of Myanmar again and let more people know what kind of person our Mom actually is
@Nargish Khanam Hey, look. I can just started being rude and maybe swear at you or sth. But I don't think bringing myself to your level, is an answer here. I do keep trying to explain how our may Su, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, is not the one to be blamed here. I believed she did the best thing she could do at all time! You can talk in your own level as much as you want. It doesn't harm me or anyone else, it will just harm you. We need help, but not to hide and run, we need help to face and fight. Is your choice whether or not to help us face and fight. But we are gonna fight and never give up. So, yeah, thank you but we don't need any place in your refugee camp.
@Nargish Khanam Take Rohingya home with u
Thank you so much , she is our only hope
Yes the only hope of the Bamars, not of the other groups, who are being oppressed and denied equal space and access.
Let me guess, you've also been brainwashed by the BBC? How I feel sorry for you.
when will Cambodia has such a leader whennnnnnnn?
Our pride
We miss you mom❤
Our mother Su, we miss you so much, please come back and bring justice for Myanmar 😢😢😢
Queen for Myanmar..
Currently, the same situation of coup reoccurs in Myanmar. Citizens are very upsetting.
For a Buddhist nation, a military rule is just so ironic and very sad. I hope that the people of Myanmar stand their ground against the greed and violence of military rule.
❤
Our leader mother Su
God please protect Her
March 12 2021 and the people are still protesting on the road and fighting for democracy.
Esa es una persona que lucha por su pais y no con arma como los cobardes.
It's a really really painful story, thank you so much for sharing this video...may the God blessed and And released her from custody. ❤❤ Continually praying for freedom.
❤❤❤❤❤
wanna watch with English subtitle
Please save our leader😞
I am an Indian , l think powerful people don't come from powerful place powerful people make there place powerful. And l can say that she is Mahatma Gandhi of Myanmar
Now, the military detained Our Mother Su Kyi and controlled our country. They shut down the Internet and wifi. And they don't let us connect with international.
This world need to know what happened in Myanmar. Please, save Myanmar!!
For people that says Aung San Suu Kyi kills Rohigas She did not own the military yet for those people who spread the rumor you should shame on your self
No one accused her as you blaimed. She failed to denoumce the atrocities and had the audacity to blane innocent civilian victims. She is no longer taken seriously as a paragon of democracy. She is tasting it now.
What ? She literally defended the army and what they did in the national court, we know that she doesn't have the power to stop the massacres , but that doesn't give her the right and the audacity to defend it -_-
@@ochanchin9995 I want to advice u that please don't blame someone if you don't know the situation clearly from both perspectives or you don't research about the topic thoroughly.
@@htetshwewinthan ok , can you give me the right "perspective" of someone who "searched" and "studied" the case when she came up before the UN court and defended the army.
2019 and years beyond.. I will still support her and the very strong willed Myanmar Buddhists monks who do not give an inch to Islamic trouble makers.. respect from 🇸🇬
Pls pls revisit Nyanmar and ask Sung Saan sui kyi to stop the massacre of the Rohingas
she cannot take a side too liberally. She risk losing the hearts of the burmese public. The military would frame her as a traitor to the country and plunge it back into dictatorship. And even tho the racists in myanmar want her to take their side, she remains silent. She could have taken the easy way out to keep the dictatorship at bay, but she didnt, she didnt side with buddhist extremists that had religious and military power. And she went against them by even jailing one of their leaders. And now shes even working her best to reassimilate the rohingya migrants back in. Fyi, ethnic violence have bern going on even b4 she was freed from house arrest so i think you will agree that giving the military the power to rule id not a good idea.
It has stopped. Repatriation on way.
@swaleha goburdun
Man,If you lazy to listen all Listen from 13 minutes to the end.Your problem is you didn't listen or understand the case.Then response me.
@@crewmatewillthrowthesehand7600 But she could and should avoid blaming the victims (Rohingyas) as if they somehow provoked such atrocities to befall on them.
@@mandya6697 u do know that the government was silenced with threats of coup and death of NLD members if they spoke up? It's not just the death of human lives, but also the chance for democracy as well. Think about it, do you think the Rohingya are safe now? Far from it. The military that killed them are now blatantly back in power. They wanted to brand Aung San Suu Kyi and her party as traitors to the other ethnic groups if they openly supported Rohingya against the country's main ethnic groups so that they can finally have the excuse to jail and kill the democratic party. U Ko Ni, a devout muslim, was her right hand man in parliament but he was assasinated by the military shortly after bringing up the conversation for Rohingya crisis. Even in the election last year, there were so many admin errors, eg. Our names were intentionally missing, one woman's name was duplicated etc etc. My name and many others were not registered despite the fact that we registered way beforehand. The military rigged us, got caught, lost the election and now they are afraid that they would be stripped of their power in the next 5 years and be arrested for genocide. Despite all the warnings from the burmese people, the international community did not believe us and wanted to frame ASSK. Where was the condemning of military during the ICJ? No, they were more obsessed with making the "fallen icon" headline than actually condemning the military.
On February1, 2021 the military arrested her again. Our lady and the people of Myanmar still fight for Democracy .
Our great leaders had been arrested by Military junta since 1st February, 2021 coup by military junta. Our country's situations currently like 20 years back although we had experienced tremendous improvement during her time 2015- 2020. We are still fighting to get Federal democracy and release of our precious leaders including Amay Daw Aung San Su Kyi and President U Win Myint.
Who came here after watching Myanmar protest.. 👍
It's happening again in Myanmar. AungSunSuukyi was arrested in her house by military since Feb.1.2021
So proud of u, protect ur people and fight for Rule of LAW with myanmar military and media lobbyists supported by wealthy Islam countries....hope everybody will understand you one day
Thank you for sharing this. I did a project on her in high school and I’ve been following her since.
How do you feel about her now?
She did the best for her country.
She is still the best. She is still fighting for our country. I don't care people taking back the noble prize. I don't care all the fake news and fuzz about ethnic cleaning from the media. Because I live here. I know the truth. I see the truth.
she is still the best !
and can u please allow me to get ms rena facebook acc
Can you tell some new words for class 5
In 2021 Feb, Aung San Suu Kyi is in prison again.
She and the president of Myanmar and many government officials had been detained by the military again on Feb 1, 2021 around 3am in the morning. The military government gave election fraud as a reason of the arrest. Military announced that they would seize power for one year as they declared the state of emergency. We people know the best what we voted for. People started protesting peacefully. Military government made a curfew from 8pm to 4am. They shut down the internet from 1am to 9am. They shot unarmed civilians. One of them was volunteer who was 16 years old and was gunshot in the head and died on spot while trying to help the injured person. One of them was a guard volunteering to guard the street at the night and shot in the head to death. One of them was a girl hiding near the building from the high pressured water gun that the military used to un-group the protestors and she was shot in the head with a gun while hiding. One of them was gun shot to the stomach and died on spot. The military government released the prisoners and sometimes drugged them and made them put poisons in public wells, throw fire sticks to the people's houses. One protestor died by being stabbed many times in his house. A car that hit everything on the street intentionally and one man was killed. The military government arrested many protestors and some of them are injured. One injured man was arrested and the next day they dumped him (the dead body) in the street. We Myanmar people will not stop fighting until the military government releases all the government officials, stops all the violence, and gives back our democracy which we voted for. The world needs to know all the cruel and unfair act of Myanmar military government and the situation in Myanmar. These are some of the things that happened between Feb 1 2021 and Feb 24 2021.
Help Myanmar
Save Myanmar
Free Our Mom
@Nargish Khanam ေခြးလိုးမသား နင့္ ဘေထြးကို လီးငံုးေပးမေနနဲ႔ လူ႔ငႏြား ေကာင္ေဘာမ ေခြးသားရဲ႕
လာေဟာင္မေနနဲ႔ ေခြးလိုး တစ္သိုက္
Educate yourself first until y'all haven't seen by yourself what's happening in Myanmar. The locals are the real victims while y'all being dramatic in cases like Genocide without knowing the truth. And y'all should know the military and government are not the same in Myanmar. Government doesn't have the power to control the military that's why we're still trying to get the real taste of democracy. Myanmar lived under the shadow of Buddha and at least we don't force to kill someone if he/she leaves the religion 😌
I have sympathy to the suffering of all human being whether Muslim, Buddhist,Tao or Christian. The consecutive leaders of the Rakhine Muslim had make bad decision to fight for separation and merge with Pakistan from 1940, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 00, 10 and now in 2017 and Arakan Muslim just followed them with blind faith. The people of Burma and people of all national race despite them and regards them as traitors and would never be able to forgive their sins. Thus current conflict.
But if they convert to Buddhism, swear and act to be loyal to Burma, follow Burma law and orders, never to fight against Burma, respect Burma official religion Buddhism, ask for forgiveness for the wrongs and promise to live peacefully for the rest of their lives, then its possible there is some generosity from the people of Burma to think differently. If not, no a mount of pressure from UN, USA, UK, EU, OIC combined criticism, condemnation, economics sanction, embargo, is going to change the mind of government of Burma and the people of Burma.
The more the noise, the more the pressure, the more the condemnation, the more the people of Burma and the leadership of Burmese government are united to face the enemies of Burma outside or within Burma.
but now, sadly, she has been arrested again. 😟😟
မင္ဂလာနံနက္ခင္ေလျဖစ္ပါေစႏုိင္ငံတကာကပညာ႐ွိလူႀကီးမင္းမ်ားနဲ႔အေမကုိယ့္ဝုိင္ဝန္ကူညီေပးေနတာေတြ႔ၾကာသည္အေမသားဥျသဒုိ႔ၾကည္ႏူမိရပါသည္ခင္ဗ်ာ
and protests are happing again in myanmar
add this too: after she refused to testify against the military for the genocide against Muslims of Rohingya , now military made a coup and detained her.
The military was complicit in that genocide, and probably the major force in it. If justice for the genocide is what you've after, then the accomplices have become the jurors.
@@eskipotato Sadly true, people that worship one God as The Almighty, howcome they get killed ?
I wish she also stand with the Rohingyas.
@Nwayyardi Tawlanyae its okay i already knew it
all the facts she told were true.. and moreover Aung Sann Suu Kyi and the president of Myanmar were detained again by Military Juntas since Monday. We want every parts of the world know about this and this was full of unfairness for her as a leader of winning party. And obviously a theft from the military by force. We strongly condemn this act from the military.
Now it happen again Daw Aung San Su Kyi is arrested again and Coup in Myanmar since first February 2021. Save Our Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi detained
I pray that God please save Aung San Suu ki.
Oh so its like me trying to talk on social media....got it. lol Democracy.
"People could be imprisoned for talking openly about Aung San Suu Kyi in public" . Let alone her presence, just the whisper of her name terrify the juntas. She is not known as Iron Lady for no reason.
Aung San Suu Kyi survived from the crisis and dilemma of the Myanmar Military"s actions, yeh she saved and protected her country which had been also saved by her father, General Aung San ! she is ICONIC leader of MYANMAR
Bogyoke Aung San was charged by the fleeing British with treason and sentenced him in ABSENTIA to DEATH, for bringing in the invading Japanese forces in his efforts to free the Burmese from the colonial yoke. When they came back, seeing that the whole country dearly loved and revered him (like his daughter) and was united behind him they would not carry out the sentence; instead, for peace and prosperity the British made Bogyoke the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of War in the last British Administration. What an insightful act!
From Nobel Peace Laureate to Accessory to Genocide. How does that happen?
And the history repeats! F* Military! အရေးတော်ပုံအောင်ရမည်
,Junta strong in help Soviet union and china.
This did not age well
The speaker speaks like it's a story from a fairy tale book. "The white princess scares her evil enemy away with her bravery" oh! please I'm sure there is much more to it than her "bravery" to course the soldiers to stand dawn. She speaks to a western audience who are mostly ignorant of the complexities involved in the country of Burma. So she paints this picture of 'good' vs 'evil' 'democracy' vs 'tyranny' which is used so often these days with these elaborate experiments of democracy (AKA regime change). I'm sure that suu kyi is another lap dog of the west whose going to dance to the tune of the west.
The Burmese people soon will realize the true meaning of democracy.
Chethiya Wijayawardhana if she was a lapdog to tje west she would just shout feel good slogans about peace. instead shes weighing everything. Even for the rohinjya situation. she cannot take a side too liberally. She risk losing the hearts of the burmese public. The military would frame her as a traitor to the country and plunge it back into dictatorship. And even tho the racists in myanmar want her to take their side, she remains silent. She could have taken the easy way out to keep the dictatorship at bay, but she didnt, she didnt side with buddhist extremists that had religious and military power. And she went against them by even jailing one of their leaders. And now shes even working her best to reassimilate the rohingya migrants back in. Fyi, ethnic violence have bern going on even b4 she was freed from house arrest so i think you will agree that giving the military the power to rule id not a good idea.
I think you should need more learning about her before writing down by your emotional
She is bursted women Angsang Suki
After what's going on in Myanmar, it all makes sense why she was so reluctant to criticize the military's role in the Rohingya genocide
The military arrested her and ruling our country.We never agree to that.
China behind this.. common people of Myanmar should fight for democracy.
India stands with Myanmar ❤️🙏
Thanks
Our connection has been cut for one day .
In hard Aung San SUU kyi alone face junta alone in helping USA American she win even today 23 in junta kill people like Rohingya section,8f still Myanmar forever poor if junta still broke the rules.
Her father was the best Hero but she isn't good enough like her father. I hope she will work for all the publics with discrimination