Prague, June 18 (CTK) - Praguers could address symbolic congratulations to Burmese dissident Daw Aung San Suu Kyi within an event the Czech humanitarian group People in Need organised Friday to mark the well-known activist's 65th birthday and point to the violation of human rights in Burma, Simon Panek said.
Panek, People in Need director, said tens of people, including politicians and diplomats, came to write their congratulations on a wall featuring Suu Kyi's portrait.
"I find her a more significant woman and a bigger hero than a number of other people who tend to invade our minds as our significant contemporaries," said Karel Schwarzenberg, TOP 09 leader and former Czech foreign minister.
Schwarzenberg, too, wrote his message to Suu Kyi on the wall in the centre of Prague.
Messages such as "We are with you" and "Wish you a free birthday next year" have appeared on the wall.
The organisers will photograph and video the wall and give the recordings to Suu Kyi's aides in Burma.
"In 1977, a similar group met in Stockholm in support of the Charter 77 [pro-democracy movement in the then communist Czechoslovakia]," Panek said, adding that such events are far from futile. They will encourage Suu Kyi and her colleagues, he added.
People in Need sends books, films and books to Burma which would be otherwise unavailable to local activists.
Suu Kyi, who promotes non-violent dialogue in multinational Burma and brought the issue of human rights in Burma to the international limelight, turns 65 on Saturday. Out of the past 21 years she spent 15 in prison.
Jiri Sitler, from the Czech Foreign Ministry, said Burmese dissidents know about the Czech support. He presented the greeting and thanks to all supporters from Suu Kyi's aides whom he recently met in Brno.
Burma has been a military regime since 1962. Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy won the elections in 1990 but the junta refused to cede power to her.Rest of your post
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