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Young people struggle for democracy

first video message by Aung San Suu Kyi

In a Foreign Policy exclusive, Aung San Suu Ky appeals to the young generations for the first time since her release in a video.

"When I came out of detention - she said - on the 13th of this month, I suddenly found myself in a new world, as it were. The people who came to support me, to offer me their greetings and their continued belief in our cause, were much younger than the ones with whom I had worked many years ago. A whole new generation or perhaps I should say, several new generations had joined us, and so it is a younger world".

These people are very skilled at communicating through the means made accessible by what the Burmese leader calls "the new IT revolution". All this, says Aung San Suu Kyi, "encouraged me, it invigorated me, because IT technology means simply better communications; better communications between different peoples, between different generations".

This means today it is much easier to "learn from the new thinking, to learn from younger people, to learn from those who have spent the years that I have spent in detention out in the free world, seeing what is going on".

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