Part 2: Section 18 Summary

This section comes from a speech Aung San Suu Kyi delivered at a pagoda in Myitkyina, Kachin State on April 27, 1989 (she later mentioned the enormous crowds attending this speech in a subsequent letter to the editor, noting that her greatest cross was not thinking herself worthy of the people's "trust and affection"). She began by thanking the crowd for supporting her and the Burmese National League for Democracy. She stressed that all the country's ethnic groups must work together to form a viable union (and that it is only after this that "peace and prosperity" can come). Problems that preclude creating a unified front must be overcome and people must work together to live in harmony. She continued that she hears often that people are afraid. However, in those areas where people are courageously joining the movement, there are more political...