I have decided to dedicate this blog entry to Aung San Suu Kyi - Myanmar's Iron Lady - Nobel Peace Prize winner and a symbol of hope and indomitable will worldwide.

Held under house arrest more than not, this petite, slender freedom fighter has been calling for democracy in Myanmar since her first foray into politics in 1988. Since then, she has been under house arrest for a staggering 15 out of 21 years she has lived in Myanmar.

Her children's Burmese citizenship was stripped from them and her family was barred from seeing her amidst the junta's continued offerings to her to leave the country and settle abroad. The reason she refused to leave was simple: she knew the junta would not allow her back.

During her detention in 1999, her husband was not permitted entry to Myanmar to see his wife and died of cancer not long after that. The last time the couple had seen each other was in 1995.

She was released from her second house arrest in 2010.