I'm still trying to keep hope alive...

Even in Burma, the hope of freedom still will not die. From the BBC for June 19:

Hundreds of pro-democracy activists have gathered in the Burmese capital, Rangoon, to mark the 59th birthday of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

They went to the headquarters of her National League for Democracy (NLD), where monks offered prayers and party representatives called for her release. ...

Ms Suu Kyi has also been confined on two previous occasions and has now spent nearly nine of the past 15 years in some form of detention.

In Saturday's commemorations, supporters released nine doves of peace and sent balloons floating into the sky.

They shouted "Free Aung San Suu Kyi" before marching towards the city's famous Shwedagon pagoda.

What I think is an equally important development, no doubt sparked by the refusal of pro-freedom forces to give up, is noted at the article's end.

The Burmese government's trenchant position is causing problems with its neighbours - fellow members of the Asean group of nations who normally do not comment on one another's internal affairs.

Despite this, Thailand and Malaysia have both raised Ms Suu Kyi's continued detention with Burma's Prime Minister Khin Nyunt, who has now postponed plans to visit a number of other countries in the region.

Last month, the Burmese government opened talks on a new constitution, but NLD members refused to attend while Ms Suu Kyi was still in detention.

ASEAN is the Association of South East Asian Nations.