Part 2: Section 10 Summary

This section comes from an interview with Karan Thapar—under the title "People's Heroine Spells Out Objectives"—dated 29 August 1988. The format is question and answer. The interview began with a question about the current confusion about the status of human rights in Rangoon and Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi described the situation as "very tense." The reigning government is virtually at a standstill, and groups of Buddhist monks and students have been selforganizing into relief groupsto those in need. She said, "It is my aim to help the people attain democracy without further violence or loss of life." Her answer to a question about what she meant by Burma's need for a "second" struggle for independence is that the people demand multi-party democracy. When asked about an offer recently extended by President Maung to have a special party congress...