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Tutu seeks India's help for Suu Kyi's release
February 1, 2007: South Africa's Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu has urged India to help secure the release of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He dedicated the Gandhi Peace Prize conferred on him on Wednesday to the 'Light of Asia.'
Accepting the peace prize from President APJ Abdul Kalam in New Delhi the Archbishop dedicated it to the people of South Africa, the victims of Darfur and Aung San Suu Kyi.
"We thank you for giving refuge to one of the greatest human beings, the Dalai Lama, and pray that you will help bring about freedom of his Tibet, and the release of our sister Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma." Tutu said.
Tutu is the second South African to receive the Gandhi Peace Prize, the first being Nelson Mandela. He was the first non-white Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa during the apartheid regime.
Sources: MIZZIMA