After repeated arrests and abuses from behalf of the ruling junta, Aung San Suu Kyi has come to represent peaceful resistance. Her name inspires a fight against repressive and unfair regimes that have constantly violated human rights.
Despite the advocacy efforts of various human rights and international organizations, Aung San Suu Kyi is still imprisoned and will be so for even longer. Just today, a court in Myanmar condemned her to 18 more months of house arrest - on top of the original time she has to serve - because a couple of months back, an American managed to get into her house.
Aung San Suu Kyi's case brings to mind the lyrics of Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind": "How many years can some people exist, before they're allowed to be free? ....Yes and how many deaths will it take till he knows, that too many people have died?"
How longer will she have to suffer under house arrest? She's been arrested for 20 years now - how many more? How many human rights violations does the junta have to commit to realize that they've done enough and that they should stop? How many more people have to raise their voice against the injustices of the junta?
The answer in the wind says "no more." No more years in house arrest, no more human rights violations, no more voices. Aung San Suu Kyi's plight must end NOW. But do the winds we feel here are the same as the winds felt in Myanmar? Let's hope so. Let's hope that the junta can hear this answer in the wind.
