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'Support Suu Kyi' call.


CARDIFF North MP Julie Morgan has called on residents to launch a letterwriting campaign to free Burmese democracy campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.  winner Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (oung sän s chē), 1945–, Burmese political leader. .

Suu Kyi, who has spent 13 of the past 19 years under arrest, is facing charges after an American swam across a lake to her home when she was under house arrest.

Mrs Morgan said: "I ask everybody who cares about democracy to do what they can.

"Write to your MP, write to government ministers, support Amnesty's International's campaign, support the Burma Campaign - do everything you can to show that people care deeply."
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Publication:South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Date:May 23, 2009
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