Alistair Horne

A portrait of the Lady

Aung San Suu Kyi is free, but has the ruling junta won the battle for Burma’s future?

issue 20 November 2010

Aung San Suu Kyi is free, but has the ruling junta won the battle for Burma’s future?

Aung San Suu Kyi’s late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony’s, Oxford. The gentlest of gentle academics, he helped establish a centre in Tibetan studies at Oxford, and converted to Buddhism.

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