Rev. Danny Fisher

The great rock-and-roll band U2 is asking fans to wear the mask picture above in support of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s Prime Minister-elect and Nobel Peace laureate who is currently standing trial before the ruling military junta on trumped-up charges of violating the terms of her house arrest. The band writes:

Cut it out.

Attach some elastic or string to the sides.

Try it on for size.

(If you’re really clever print it on card or laminate it

Or tape on a little handle to hold it in front of your face.

Wear it to work or college. Wear it on the bus or the train. Wear it in the pub or at the shops.

And don’t forget.

Bring it to a U2 show.

Put it on with thousands of others when the band strike up the opening bars of ‘Walk On’ [the band's song about and dedicated to Suu Kyi]. Wear it to to show the world that you have not forgotten. ‘Please use your liberty to promote ours,’ says Aung San Suu Kyi.

Use your liberty to promote hers. And the liberty of the people of Burma.

Download your mask here.