Freedom in motion
After nearly two decades under house arrest at the hands of Burma’s military regime, pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi — now a member of the burgeoning democratic nation’s parliament — is in the midst of a long-awaited visit to the United States. At Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on Thursday, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and international icon outlined her first goal for her country’s future: educating Burma’s people in how “to be citizens of a free society.” “We have just started on the road toward shaping our country into the kind of nation that we want it to be,” Suu Kyi told a packed hall. “We want to start out by creating a responsible society. … Freedom and responsibility are different sides of the same coin.” In 2010, Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, where she had spent 15 of the previous 21 years imprisoned as a result of a...