and welcome, please, peter popham and suzanne dimaggio. [applause] >> peter will read first and then suzanne will join him for discussion. >> thanks very much. good evening. good to see sony people here today. i've been thinking about burma, visiting burma for more than 20 years, and have been writing this book far, i was in the process of researching and writing it for five or six years before it was actually finished. but certainly burma has never been so interesting and important as it is at this particular moment, so i feel very fortunate to have found an american publisher with the energy and gumption to get it out exactly the right moment. and to the asia society for having the kindness and to welcome me to talk about it. i thought i would read a few pages from my book about the election of 1990. because we are on the cusp, as you know, of a by election on sunday the first of april. it is only the third uch election since 1990, multiparty election. 1998 election and 2010, and then this ie election which we followed by another general