21 years after she had been awarded the prize, Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize at an awards ceremony in Oslo.
Accepting her award, Suu Kyi told the crowd,
"[The prize] made me real once again: it had drawn me back into the wider human community. And what was most important, the Nobel Prize had drawn the attention of world to the struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma. We were not going to be forgotten."
Commenting on the situation in her own country, she went on to say,
"Hostilities have not ceased in the far north; to the west, communal violence resulting in arson and murder were taking place just several days before I started out the journey that has brought me here today."
See the full text of her speech here.
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