To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

Because of rampant inflation, living standards have been dropping for the great majority of the population. The people are poorer because standards of health and education have fallen. And conditions in the rural areas are worse off than they have ever been. So, you cannot equate the so-called open-market economy adopted by the SLORC with any real development that benefits people.

Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.