Despite 20 years of house arrest, Nobel Peace Price winner and Burmese pro-Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi continues, in the non-violent mold of Mahatma Gandhi, to be an icon of hope.

"When we ask for democracy, all we are asking is that our people should be allowed to live in tranquility, under the rule of law, protected by institutions which will guarantee our rights, the rights that will enable us to maintain our human dignity, to heal the long festering wounds and to allow love and courage to flourish," she is once reported to have said. "Is that such a very unreasonable demand?"