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Subject: Greeting Cards and Posters featuring a magnificent portrait of  Daw Suu by Chinese artist Chen Yan Ning.

Greeting Cards and Posters featuring a magnificent portrait of Daw Suu by
Chinese artist Chen Yan Ning.  The artist has donated the portrait and its
reproductions to the Burmese people and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.  

Order the cards and posters and use them for fund- and consciousness -
raising activities at your upcoming events.  To order, contact Syllavethy
Gallery.  


Syllavethy Gallery
Montgarrie, Alford, Aberdeenshire
Scotland AB33  8AQ
Tel: 019755-62273
Fax: 019755 63173

International + 44 19755 62273

Order Form

Aung San Suu Kyi Greeting Cards

Full colour reproductions of the portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi by the
internationally renowned artist, Chen Yan Ning.

Daw Suu Kyi was democratically elected to be the head of Burma's Government
while under house arrest by the military junta, SLORC.  They rejected the
election results and retained power as a corrupt and degenerate force, using
slave labour to shore up one of the poorest economies (in one of the richest
natural resource areas) in the world.

Daw Suu Kyi, daughter of Burma's national hero, General Aung San, who was
assassinated when she was a child, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her
courage and loyalty to Burma.

Cards approximately 8" x 4 1/2" with envelopes ... 1.00 pound
Pack of 5 cards with envelopes ... 4.50 pounds.

Please make cheques payable to the SUU KYI FUND

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Aung San Suu Kyi

Daw Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1945, the daughter of General Aung
San, the hero of Burma's freedom and democracy. Aung San was assassinated
when Suu Kyi was a little child and it has been her life-long vow to fulfil
his wishes of returning her country to democracy.

Suu Kyi was educated at Oxford University, married her husband, Dr. Michael
Aris, and settled in Britain to raise their family.  During a trip to Burma
in 1988 to visit her sick mother, a student demonstration sparked off
violent political reactions which so concerned the Burmese people they
called on Daw Suu Kyi to form a democratic political party on their behalf.
The incumbent military junta, SLORC, immediately imposed house arrest on Suu
Kyi.  In spite of this, the Burmese people voted her their rightful leader
in a landslide victory over a surprised SLORC.  They refused to recognize
the election results and have retained strict security on Daw Suu Kyi to
this day.

In 1991, recognizing her immense bravery and sense of duty, she was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize, and has been saluted by free people and governments
the world over.

Although house arrest was theoretically lifted in 1995, Suu Kyi's only
"freedom" is to leave Burma, knowing that she would never be allowed to
return.  She has refused to do this and has been separated from her beloved
family by one of the most corrupt regimes in the world today.

Despite containing rich natural resources, Burma remains one of the poorest
countries in the world, split by unnecessary national strife, relying on its
exports of heroin ? the foremost exporter in the world ? to bring wealth to
a handful of despots.

Reports of torture, slavery and the genocide of regional cultures are common
in the Western Press.  Entire states in America have imposed embargoes on
trade with Burma as a result of their record of human rights abuses.  Some
major multi-national companies have ceased trading in the country.

But this is nowhere near enough.

Daw Suu Kyi has simply asked for dialogue with SLORC and the ability to hold
free elections for her people.  We hope that increasing pressure from around
the world will bring SLORC to the negotiating table soon. . . before
something drastic happens to this incredibly brave woman.

Governments remain silent, afraid of losing out on trade.  It is up to the
free people of the world to force governments ? particularly SLORC ? to be
called to account.

CHEN YAN NING

Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1945, he began art school at 14.  Graduating
from the Guangzhou Academy of Art in 1965.  By the age of 27, Chen Yan
Ning's oil paintings were winning prizes and hanging in national galleries
in the main cities of the PRC.  He was already one of their leading artists
and reproductions of his paintings of Mao leading the people were on
hoardings and buildings throughout China.

In 1984, Michael & Susan Gassaway met Yan Ning during a business trip to
China.  Although not in the art business at the time, they recognized his
virtuosity and promised to bring him to Britain to study paintings of the
Masters seen hitherto only in books.  In 1986 Yan Ning spent a month with
the Gassaways, visiting galleries and giving demonstrations in Aberdeen,
Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London.  This began a close friendship, culminating
in the birth of Syllavethy Gallery in 1989 - formed exclusively to assist
with Yan Ning's promotion in the West.

The artist and his family have lived in America since 1986 (he is now a USA
citizen).  He receives portrait commissions via Portraits Inc. in New York,
and Syllavethy Gallery in Scotland.  Some of his subjects in Britain include
Jane Asher, Anita & Gordon Roddick of the Body Shop, Richard Branson, the
Hon. Simon Howard of Castle Howard and recently, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
His work is auctioned regularly through Christie's Swire in Hong Kong.

Chen Yan Ning has given his time and talent freely to paint this portrait of
Aung San Suu Kyi as a gift to her family.  He is deeply moved by her
courage, determination and dignity, which he has captured so vividly.

On seeing a photograph of the portrait for the first time, one of Saw Suu
Kyi's family said,

"Your portrait of ... Suu is splendid.  It was as if Suu had walked into the
room and sat down beside me.  You have captured not only her likeness but
also her character and her poise.  The painting is so much more than just a
photograph.  It is a great work of art."

For further information, or to order note cards with a full colour
reproduction of the portrait, please contact Syllavethy Gallery

Full colour photocopied posters of the portrait are available from:

Aris & Phillips Ltd.
Teddington House
Warminster
Wiltshire BA12 8PQ
Fax: (01985) 212 910


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