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• I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

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• I look forward to trying the Internet.

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• I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest – one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

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• I knew some of the army quite well.

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• I haven’t heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I’m listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

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• I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn’t want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

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• I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be – or perhaps I’m not listening at the right times.

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• I don’t want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

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• I don’t understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

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• I don’t think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

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• I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.

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• I don’t think I have achieved anything that I can really be proud of.

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• I don’t believe in professional dissidents. I think it’s just a phase, like adolescence.

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• I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

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• I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

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• I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

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• I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.

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• I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

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• Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say ‘That’s it.’ Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

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• Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

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Birth:	19th June, 1945
Nationality:	Burmese
Profession:	Chairperson, Politician

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