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Dear Alice and friends:
i am very sad also to hear about the loss of Aung San Suu Kyi's husband at
such an early age. Our ten thousand prayers go out to her and family and
all the heroic peoples of Burma in this deep  moment of grieving. She  has
shown again her enormous courage and commitment to the cause of freedom and
democracy by rejecting the government's "offer" to allow her to visit her
dying husband. peoples all over the world will continue to take inspiration
from her selfless action,
Swee-Hin & colleagues and students in global, international and peace
education






At 06:31 PM 3/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Myanmar opposition leader's husband dies of cancer
>****************************************
>
>By Paul Majendie
>
>LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - Michael Aris, the British academic husband
>of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, died of prostate cancer
>in a British hospital on Saturday, his 53rd birthday.

>
>The Nobel peace laureate paid a warm tribute to her ``wonderful''
>husband of 27 years, saying ``Nothing can take that away from me.''
>
>Myanmar's military government had offered to allow Suu Kyi to visit her
>dying husband at a hospital in southern England but said she had
>rejected the offer.
>
>The government said it had told her she could return home after the
>trip, provided she did not use the visit for political purposes.
>
>The leader of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement and her supporters had
>feared that if she went to England to see Aris, the military might block
>her return to Myanmar.
>
>The opposition says the military has long sought a pretext for getting
>Suu Kyi, the biggest thorn in its side, out of Myanmar.
>
>Suu Kyi was believed to be at her home in the Myanmar capital Yangon.
>The offices of her National League for Democracy (NLD) were closed for a
>national holiday.
>
>Earlier in the day, she released the following statement through
>diplomats in Yangon:
>
>``On behalf of my sons, Alexander and Kim, as well as on my own behalf,
>I want to thank all those around the world who have supported my husband
>during his illness and have given me and my family love and sympathy.
>
>``I am so fortunate to have such a wonderful husband who has always
>given me the understanding I needed. Nothing can take that away from
>me.''
>
>Aris, a specialist in Tibetan studies at St Anthony College in Oxford,
>was reported to have last seen his wife in December 1994. His recent
>request for a visa to visit her in Myanmar was rejected.
>
>Tom White, a close family friend who first met Aris in 1988, said: ``I
>feel relief that he is at last released from his suffering. It has been
>going on for several months.
>
>``He realised he would never get back to see his wife. He had been
>trying for three years to get a visa. For reasons we all understand, she
>didn't feel she could leave Burma in case she was not allowed back.''
>
>``It was an awful situation for both of them,'' he told Reuters on being
>given the news of Aris's death.
>
>British Foreign Affairs Minister Derek Fatchett said: ``I was very
>saddened to hear of Michael Aris's death. My condolences and thoughts
>are with his family, especially Aung San Suu Kyi and his sons at this
>difficult time.''
>
>Fatchett said he regretted deeply the fact that ``despite numerous
>international appeals, the Burmese regime refused to grant a visa for Dr
>Aris to visit his wife before he died.''
>
>08:36 03-27-99
>
>
>
Toh Swee-Hin (S.H.Toh)  PhD
Director, Centre for International Education & Development(CIED)
& Professor, International/Intercultural Education, Dept. of Educational
Policy Studies,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G5

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