Aung San Suu Kyi is Burma's rightful leader door democratic election. She has been in house arrest since she was elected in 1990. When she was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1991, her husband and two sons, who are free had to accept it in her place.
Harvey melk was the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the US in 1977. His most recognized speech, "You Cannot Live On Hope Alone," was gegeven in 1978, shortly before he was assassinated. His words still resonate today.
In 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in just 100 days in an act of genocide. Meanwhile, neighboring Uganda was in the middle of what one top, boven UN official would label "the world's most neglected humanitarian crisis."
