Sir, – Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, following many years under virtual house arrest, has accepted an invitation from British prime minister David Cameron to visit London this month.
To coincide with this visit, perhaps Dublin’s Lord Mayor Andrew Montague would extend an invitation to Ms Suu Kyi to come to Dublin to sign the Roll of Honorary Freedom, an honour which was conferred on her in her absence in 1999 on behalf of the citizens of Dublin. Unable to leave Burma to accept the award in person for fear of being refused re-entry to her country, a blank space has been left on the Roll awaiting her signature.
Having opposed a tyrannical regime in Burma for decades at huge personal cost to her liberty, Ms Suu Kyi has earned the honour of joining other recipients such as Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev and John F Kennedy as Freemen of Dublin City. – Yours, etc,