Suu Kyi: Democracy must be in the power of the people

Friday 15 June 2012, 15:39 clock, clock 19:09 Updated
For 24 years, Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was no longer in Europe. Now she has the freedom to pass and return. In an interview with the Western Swiss television RTS she says, where it derives its power - and why they shy away from comparisons with Nelson Mandela.

Interview with Aung San Suu Kyi (English)

Suu Kyi has been working the late '80s and for the non-violent democratization of their country. So far, she leaned out of fear, no longer allowed to enter Burma, a number of ways from, to go abroad. But now the 66 year old on a European tour. Your first stop took them to Switzerland.
Around the world, Burma's parliament for their physical and mental strength is admired. The secret lies in their belief and the knowledge of good friends, as explained in an interview with Suu Kyi RTS journalist Darius Rochebin. At the moment she got back her passport and thus their freedom, she recalls, but not exactly - it has picked up the document does not own.
Suu Kyi: The most important thing is the people

Denis Goldberg fought alongside Nelson Mandela against apartheid

In the struggle against apartheid, he sat down side by side with Nelson Mandela and for the human rights of black people in South Africa. He also sat for a long time so in prison. On Wednesday the civil rights visited the Comenius School and talked about his experiences.

Denis Goldberg said in the Comenius course on the history of apartheid and the current situation in South Africa.
Mettingen. "Whatever you ask, it's a good question, there are no stupid questions." Denis Goldberg, it is important to deepen that around 60 young people not only listen, but also by what they hear their own thoughts and questions. The South Africans in the Comenius School a welcome guest, and has already tied up a lot of students with its impressive descriptions. On Wednesday, he talks about the history of apartheid and the current political situation in his homeland. The 79-year-old remembers his time as a fighter against apartheid - side by side with Nelson Mandela and how that as a member of the African National Congress (ANC), which this year celebrates its 100th anniversary. Like Mandela, Goldberg has been sitting for decades in prison before he in the 1990s witnessed the birth of South African democracy.
The "worst months of my life," he experienced after his arrest. The apartheid regime had wanted to make clear "that we are terrorists," says Goldberg, and is glad to escape with his life, because really, "she wanted to see hang us," he reveals how inhuman and brutal the regime.