Download Truth Be Told: A Rebuttal to Misinformation, Propaganda and Lies, an excerpted chapter from the forthcoming updated edition of Aung San Suu Kyi from Prison - and a Letter to a Dictator
“One of the ways the international community can help Burma is by changing the narrative. This book has been submitted to international courts of law both in Argentina and in Germany as evidence that completely refutes the fact that my mother was silent over the Rohingya crisis.”
Kim Aris, Aung San Suu Kyi’s son and Burma Activist
A conclusion to 43 years of investigative research and personal involvement by Alan Clements, this book presents not only a compelling case for the release of Burma's Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi (and all political prisoners), but an explanation for the media-facilitated disgrace of a courageously wise feminine-inspired Buddhist leader, a 77-year-old political spiritual luminary likened to Nelson Mandela, Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
Included in this concisely presented work is an in-depth compilation of Aung San Suu Kyi's position on the Rohingya crisis in her own words, a summary of the author's findings on the first anniversary of the 2021 military coup, and a detailed conversation between the authors that covers the nature of their work, and of freedom itself as it relates to the ongoing struggle for democracy in Burma.
“I am happy to endorse this timely book by Alan Clements and Fergus Harlow. I believe this is the most truthful and accurate commentary on how the world got it wrong, not unlike Tibet, and what we can do to support Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma.”
Geshe Lhakdor, Director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamshala,
Translator and Interpreter for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
“This book zooms into the events leading up to the current crisis in Myanmar for the readers, examining not just what happened in the past, witnessed by the authors themselves, but also focusing on how Aung San Suu Kyi consistently responded. It goes beyond the sensational and superficial headlines, and delves into truth.”
Dr. Ma Thida, surgeon, writer, former political prisoner and Chair of Writers (Prison Committee) PEN International
“This book is a beacon in the dark. By illuminating in vivid detail the catastrophe unfolding in Burma and the world’s indifference to it, Alan Clements and Fergus Harlow shine a harsh but compassionate light on the crisis of humanity at the beginning of the twenty-first century.”
Stephen Batchelor, author of After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age,
Yale University Press
On Burma’s Voices of Freedom
“During his study of totalitarianism and acts of defiance, Clements tried to talk to Myanmar’s most famous revolutionary figures, prominent monks and religious leaders, journalists and filmmakers, and social activists “These voices describe in vivid detail the courage and conviction required to non-violently confront injustice,” he wrote. It would truly be a travesty if the fallen heroes and their voices of freedom saw their unfinished movement destroyed by people instilled with the evil spirit inherited from authoritarian rule."
Mon Mon Myat, Reviewing Burma’s Voices of Freedom in The Irrawaddy
“The author approaches his subject from the perspective of his Buddhist beliefs. He was one of the first American citizens to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar and his spiritual adviser performed the same role for Suu Kyi. Clements appears principally interested in understanding how Buddhism has influenced the democracy movement and the lives of those he interviews. Inevitably, though, “Burma’s Voices of Freedom” is also an unofficial accounting of Suu Kyi’s record as state counsellor, the position created for her in 2015.”
David Eimer, Reviewing Burma’s Voices of Freedom in The South China Morning Post