s, however, there are grounds for o=timism. The NLD may not have the kind of organization the African National=Congress had in South Africa, but, as Havel showed in Czechoslovakia, mass organizations can emerge with remarkable sp=ed in velvet revolutionary times. There is the social and moral force of

les ahead. Wisdom and strength= both inside and outside Burma, will be needed to surmount them. Whatever happens, Suu Kyi has long since earne= the Havel and Mandela comparisons. Like Mandela, she has endured decades =f imprisonment, emerging with an extraordinary lack of rancor. Like Havel, she has n

aves on Radio Free Czechoslovakia and made a name for himself as Soviet tanks approached. But then, after a Russian invasion crushed the uprising, Havel had to seek work in a brewery, forbidden to stage his plays. That wasn't the end of the story, however. Two decades later, after the fall of the Be

a brewery, forbidden to stage his plays. That wasn't the end of the story, however. Two decades later, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Havel became the first president of the Czech Republic. Or consider the French Revolution: Three and a half years after the storming of the Bastille, the

of censored artists were invited to read from and discuss works banned by repressive regimes. I had been part of a team of lawyers assembled to help Havel and other Czeck dissidents get out of prison in the 1970s. The American readers included Garrison Keillor, Marvin Hamlisch, Peter Ustinov, William Wa

letion of the panel, in a remarkable turn of fate, the four of us ended up in the same elevator. (Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke: Gorbachev, Havel, Sharansky and Dershowitz meet in an elevator in Jerusalem...) Gorbachev recognized the three of us and turning to me said, “You’re the big shot lawy

rves chilling warnings of reactionary forces gathering in the West. He is the chair of the Human Rights Foundation, succeeding his predecessor Vaclav Havel. kKasparov.com @Kasparov63 Laura Galante Cyberspace analyst Laura Galante analyzes how states use cyberspace: a domain where militaries, intellige

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