Why did Havel & Tutu commission a report on Burma?
As lifetime campaigners against political oppression, Havel and Tutu had closely followed Burma’s struggle for peace and national reconciliation. On Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 60th birthday on June 19, 2005, the world’s attention was drawn to Burma, the only place in the world where a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate was under arrest. Havel and Tutu decided that it was time to publish a definitive report that examined the threat that the regime posed both to its own people and to regional peace and security.
