Aung San Suu Kyi delivers her acceptance speech during the Nobel peace prize ceremony in Oslo.
'Before continuing to speak of my country, may I speak out for our prisoners of conscience. There still remain such prisoners in Burma. It is to be feared that because the best known detainees have been released, the remainder, the unknown ones, will be forgotten. I am standing here because I was once a prisoner of conscience. As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many. Those who have not yet been freed, those who have not yet been given access to the benefits of justice in my country number much more than one. Please remember them and do whatever is possible to effect their earliest, unconditional release'.
Aung San Suu Kyi used her speech to highlight continuing issues in Burma, including political prisoners and ongoing clashes. "Hostilities have not ceased in the far north; to the west, communal violence resulting in arson and murder were taking place just several days before I started out the journey that has brought me here today," she said. "There have been changes in a positive direction; steps towards democratisation have been taken".
She added: "If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith."
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