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In September 2012, at an Amnesty International event held in her honour in
Washington, DC, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Amnesty’s
Ambassador of Conscience, was presented with a bouquet by a little Russian
girl. The girl’s mother was Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, founder of the punk band
Pussy Riot, who with two other bandmates was serving out a harsh term in a
Siberian labour camp for the ‘hooliganism’ of a protest song staged at Moscow’s
main Russian Orthodox cathedral. The song was called ‘Punk Prayer: Mother of
God, Drive Putin Away’.
Suu Kyi accepted the flowers seemingly unaware of the identity of the little
girl, Gera Verzilov, who happened to be on a media tour of the USA with her
father, Pyotr. Pyotr had described to the press how, earlier that week, Gera
visited her mother in prison for the first time in six months, and afterwards sent
her sketches with plans for her escape from prison.
No mention was made of Pussy Riot until towards the end of the programme,
when one of the students in the audience invited Suu Kyi to comment on the
cause célèbre.
‘Well, I don’t see why people shouldn’t sing whatever it is that they want to
sing,’ said Suu Kyi. ‘There’s nothing wrong with singing. I think the only reason
why people should not sing is if what they’re saying is deliberately insulting …
or if they sing terribly … that would be the best reason for not singing at all.’
After the laughter had died down, she concluded, ‘So I would like the whole
group to be released as soon as possible.’
One of the event moderators asked a follow-up question: whether Suu Kyi had
a specific message for the Russian government regarding Pussy Riot. Her
response: ‘I want to ask one question first. Was there anything in the songs that
was nasty to other people?’ The moderator conceded that it was a matter of
judgment; people could take offence.
‘When you say people,’ Suu Kyi inquired further, ‘do you mean the
government?’ When the moderator said yes, her reply was: ‘Well I think
governments don’t
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