The region of the world that has been influenced by political leaders pol pot and Aung San Suu Kyi is Southeast Asia. For example in the case of Aung San Suu Kyi, she explicitly described the struggle for democracy in Burma as a spiritual struggle. In her essay "Freedom from Fear', written before first period of detention, she wrote "within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day, Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure.