The Olof Palme Prize 2005

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Olof Palme Prize 2005 for her unyielding fight for a democratic Burma.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is an outstanding example of the efforts to attain democracy by the people of Burma, where respect for human rights, ethnic unity, and a life in peace remain only a dream. To her compatriots she is known as the ’Iron Butterfly’, a name alluding both to her peaceful struggle and her courage and strength of character. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has devoted her life to Burma, and is a stubborn believer in the final victory of its peoples’ will.

To peoples around the world fighting oppression, she is an important symbol of peaceful opposition to repressive power.

Previous receivers of the Olof Palme Prize

1987 Cyril Ramaphosa
1988 UNs Peace Keeping Operation under the leadership of Javier Pèrez de Cuèllar
1989 Václav Havel
1990 Harlem Dèsir and SOS Racisme
1991 Amnesty International
1992 Arzu Abdullayeva and Anahit Bayandour
1993 Students for Sarajevo
1994 Wei Jingsheng
1995 Fatah Youth, Labour Young Leadership and Peace Now
1996 Casa Alianza under the leadership of Bruce Harris
1997 Salima Ghezali
1998 Independent media in former Yugoslavia represented by Veran Matic, Serbia, Senad Pecanin, Bosnia-Hercegovia and Victor Ivancic, Croatia.
1999 Swedish anti-racists, Kurdo Baksi, Björn Fries and the Parent Group in Klippan. representing the popular mobilization against growing racism and xenophobia in our country.
2000 Bryan Stevenson
2001 Fazle Hasan Abed and girls education
2002 Hanan Ashrawi
2003 Hans Blix
2004 Ljudmila Aleksejeva, Sergej Kovaljov, Anna Politkovskaya

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