We are not in legal power to do something. We have to take risks, otherwise we cannot do anything.

Many people don't know people were tortured. Many people don't know about the darkness in Burma.

The membership fee is your life-your commitment to democracy. No money.

They didn't provide food or water. I lived in starvation because my family could not visit me and provide food. The world should press ahead with a resolution on Burma.

One intelligence officer interrogated me when I was blindfolded asking whether I had contact with the opposition group along the border. I replied that I had no contact. As soon as I answered, his fist slammed into my belly and I was knocked down. I could not count how many hours this went on. Eventually I could not stand up anymore.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.