Voices
ANUSHAY
HOSSAIN
HUFFINGTON
10.21.12
The
Silence of
a Laureate
WHEN I WAS GROWING UP in
Bangladesh, Burma’s Aung San
Suu Kyi amazed me. Burma is right
next door to us geographically,
but as a little girl all I understood
about the military junta there was
ILLUSTRATION BY KYLE T. WEBSTER
primarily through pictures.
I just could not wrap my head
around what kind of threat a tiny
woman—with her iconic bright
and colorful flowers carefully
tucked behind her ear—posed to
these big men with guns. Clearly
the military’s worries went beyond what Suu Kyi represented to
Anushay
Hossain is
the founder
of AnushaysPoint.com