Silenced, isolated, banned from politics and now subjected to a sham trial, Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi appears for all the world like the ultimate victim. Don't believe it for a minute. Quietly and with bottomless patience, this diamond-tough woman is winning her long struggle with her oppressors.
Ms. Suu Kyi is a student of Mahatma Gandhi and his doctrine of the power of the powerless. Gandhi's insight was that however cruel or mighty the tyrant, oppressed peoples had the power to liberate themselves if they could learn to conquer their own fear.
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