Winnie Byanyima Quotes
Democracy in Myanmar cannot be achieved with discrimination and gross violations of human rights.
Byanyima, Winnie. Statement on Myanmar. Oxfam International, 2017.
Said was commenting on the furor that developed in 1989 when Iran Ayatollah Khomeini issued a Muslim legal opinion—a fatwa--calling for the death of, and offered a bounty on, Salman Rushdie whose book, Satanic Verses, contained material to which they objected as blasphemy:
In a particularly acrimonious House debate on the largest military appropriations bill in the history of the country, the speaker limited an opponent to 45 seconds to argue against the pending bill. Jacobs shouted his protest:
His way was to have a strong dictator, providing few human rights guarantees, and very limited civil liberties. With that to extol the virtues of those democratic elements, and state that this is the goal that his dictatorship was working towards. He believed that the poor education, the dominance of a single religion that is itself non democratic, a powerful military that was not under the control of civilian government, and the tribal nature of his society made it impossible to have a current full democracy. The government that replaced him was better but far from a full democracy. Only time and trial will determine whether or not he was right.
Winifred Byanyima, is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician, and diplomat. She is the executive director of UNAIDS, effective November 2019.
