Aung San Suu Kyi on Radio 4's Today programme this morning.
Listening to her talk I was struck by her calm, gentle dignity and strength. Most strikingly how she is embarrassed when people talk about her "suffering" - for example prevented from being with her dying husband, separated from her sons for years and unable to lead a normal life due to house arrest.
She does not recognise this as suffering. She asks how can she be considered to have suffered when many have died for the same cause and she's still alive.
Those of us who are alive, she says, have no right to complain. What a brave and noble woman and what a great example to us whingeing masses.
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