Date:
2012
Title:
Burmese NLD Flag
Description:
National League for Democracy Flag-Burmese
Outside of Myanmar (formerly Burma), Fort Wayne boasts the largest Burmese population in the world. Fort Wayne has provided asylum for Burmese refugees since the early 1990s and continues to do so today. The visit of Aung San Suu Kyi, president of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar, to Fort Wayne on 25 September 2012 was an event of international significance prompted by the large Burmese population in the city. It was her first visit to the United States in over forty years.
Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and spent fifteen years on house arrest for leading a nonviolent movement against the military regime. Myanmar is now celebrating its first freely elected parliament after decades of military rule. Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, now holds two-thirds of the available parliamentary seats. This National League for Democracy party flag was one of several made by a local child in preparation for Suu Kyi's 2012 visit. More than forty children and twenty-five adults from IPFW's New Immigrant Literacy Program made flags for the event.
Outside of Myanmar (formerly Burma), Fort Wayne boasts the largest Burmese population in the world. Fort Wayne has provided asylum for Burmese refugees since the early 1990s and continues to do so today. The visit of Aung San Suu Kyi, president of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar, to Fort Wayne on 25 September 2012 was an event of international significance prompted by the large Burmese population in the city. It was her first visit to the United States in over forty years.
Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and spent fifteen years on house arrest for leading a nonviolent movement against the military regime. Myanmar is now celebrating its first freely elected parliament after decades of military rule. Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, now holds two-thirds of the available parliamentary seats. This National League for Democracy party flag was one of several made by a local child in preparation for Suu Kyi's 2012 visit. More than forty children and twenty-five adults from IPFW's New Immigrant Literacy Program made flags for the event.
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Burmese Flag done for Aung San Suu Kyi's Visit
Watercolor and Pencil Sketch of Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese Flag done for Aung San Suu Kyi's Visit
Watercolor and Pencil Sketch of Aung San Suu Kyi