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Invitation (r)
BCN VG NOVIB
Burma Centrum Nederland van Gennep
INVITATION
27th of May 1997
De Rode Hoed
Keizersgracht 102 Amsterdam
20:00 - 22:30 hours (8:00 =- 10:30 pm)
Our struggle for democracy is first of all a revolution of the spririt
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
On the 27th of May it is seven years ago that the National League for Democracy, de party of Nobel Peace Price laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi won the elections with an overwhelming majority. Until today the military regime refuses to hand over power and tries, by all possible means, to silence the opposition.
In the book Voice of Fear Daw Aung San Suu Kyi makes knowledge of her answers to the dictatorshop in Burma. Opposite to hate and violence she sets reconciliation and forgiveness, to lies the truth and to intimidation bravery, to lead her country to freedom and democracy. Voice of Fear is a document of hope.
By occasion of the publication of the Dutch translation of Voice of Fear, Stem van Verzet, Publisher van Gennep, Novib and the Burma Centre Netherlands offer you a program in which writers and journalists explain on what way and under what conditions the Burmese opoosition continues her work and what the perspectives are for peace and democracy in Burma. The evening will be illustrated with a performance of the Burmese singer Bo Han.
Program:
Minka Nijhuis, journalist and writer
Passages of Voice of Fear and an impression of the way
the opposition continues her work (Dutch language)
Anna Allott
Dissidents and censure (English language)
Martin Smith, writer, journalist and documentary maker
The position of the ethnic minorities after decennia of ruling by central authority
(English language)
For more information please contact BCN +31 (0)20 6716952
Stem van Verzet is a publication of Publisher van Gennep and Novib and available in regular bookstores as well as during this evening for Fl 38,90