In Quest of Democracy

Issue Date January 1992
Volume 3
Issue 1
Page Numbers 5-14
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About the Author

Aung San Suu Kyi is the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Peace and the leader of Burma’s National League for Democracy. 

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