Good news, at long last.
“To be forgotten,” Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi added, “is to die a little.” In a quiet, throaty voice on Saturday she asked the world not to forget other prisoners of conscience, both in Myanmar and around the world, other refugees, others in need, who may be suffering twice over, she said, from oppression and from the larger world’s “compassion fatigue.”
She wears flowers in her hair because she remembers her father threading flowers into her hair before he was assassinated, when she was 2. She’s now 67.