Address sent by Aung San Suu Kyi for the opening of the dialogue

……. “So in this ‘Dialogue on Democracy’, I would appreciate very much if you would concentrate as much on the responsibilities as on the rights. How do we develop a sense of democratic responsibility? Where does it start? At the family? In the schools? In university? In the polls? There are so many different ways of starting it but I believe that it starts in the family. From the family, outwards into society we should understand what democracy entails not just in the matter of rights but also in terms of responsibilities.”

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Opening remarks by Rajmohan Gandhi