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| Trócaire Director to open Burma Photo Exhibition
| | | Justin Kilcullen, Director of the Aid Agency, Trócaire, will perform the official opening of a photographic exhibition entitled "Burma, Forgotten Nation - Forgotten People”, in the Cork Vision Centre, North Main Street, Cork on Monday 22nd May at 6.00pm.
"Burma, Forgotten Nation - Forgotten People” will feature a collection of approximately 40 photographs taken by the Cork photographer, Philip Daly, who recently accompanied Simon Coveney TD MEP on a fact-finding trip to the Burmese refugee camps on the Thailand/Burma border.
Burma, a country of around 50 million people, is ruled by fear. The human rights record of its military government - the State Peace and Development Council - is among the worst in the world.
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| | | | | Among its excesses are wide scale forced labour, conscription of child soldiers, torture, extra-judicial executions, systematic rape and forced relocation of ethnic minorities. Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is the democratically elected leader of the country. She led Burma's National League for Democracy party to a landslide general election victory in 1990. The military regime have however, chosen to ignore the results and has retained power ever since. Daw Suu Kyi is one of the world's leading pro-democracy activists and advocates of non-violence.
|  | | Photography by Philip Daly | | | Among its excesses are wide scale forced labour, conscription of child soldiers, torture, extra-judicial executions, systematic rape and forced relocation of ethnic minorities. Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is the democratically elected leader of the country. She led Burma's National League for Democracy party to a landslide general election victory in 1990. The military regime have however, chosen to ignore the results and has retained power ever since. Daw Suu Kyi is one of the world's leading pro-democracy activists and advocates of non-violence.
Other speakers at the official opening on Monday next 22nd May will include Mary Montaut from Burma Action Ireland (BAI). The photographs on display will be for sale, with all proceeds donated to this Irish solidarity group.
The exhibition, which is sponsored by Simon Coveney and supported by BAI, will run in the Cork Vision Centre from 18th to 26th May (excluding Sundays & Mondays) from 10.00am – 5.00pm.
Editor’s Note:
Aung San Suu Kyi has been in and out of detention in Burma since 1989. She was held under house arrest from 1989 -1995, and again under virtual house arrest from 2000 - 2002. She was then arrested in May 2003 after the Depayin massacre (in Burma), during which up to 100 of her supporters were beaten to death by the regime's militia. She is currently under house arrest in Rangoon. She is a 'Freewoman' of both Dublin and Galway cities.
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|  | | Photography by Philip Daly |
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