Suu Kyi: Greater freedom demands greater responsibility

During the East-West Center’s international media conference in Yangon, Myanmar, Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi described the importance of a free press in a country undergoing political transition. “Greater freedom demands greater responsibility and this freedom is not to be misused,” she said. She added, “The press must teach us to understand what democratic responsibilities are by themselves exercising the responsibility…Without a free press we cannot really lay the foundations of a democracy.” Her country’s democracy icon, Suu Kyi spent more than 15 years in detention. She is now a member of parliament after her party won by a landslide in April 2012.

 
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