14 DAY TRIAL // The famous actor and comedian Jim Carrey has just launched a new campaign on YouTube in order to encourage the viewers to sign up for the US Campaign For Burma to help free Suu Kyi. If you didn't know, the Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested in Yangon, a city of Myanmar. The actor already has the help of the Human Rights Action Center but he needs the help of the YouTube members to sign up for the campaign that might save her life. Digital Spy reports that Suu Kyi was arrested because of the protests concerning the regime of General Than Shwe.
"She's a champion of human rights and decency in Asia and a symbol of hope to all struggling people. Even though she's compared to a modern day Ghandi or Nelson Mandela, most people in America still don't know about Aung San. And let's face it, the name's a little difficult to remember. Here's how I did it: Aung San sounds like 'unsung', as in unsung hero. Aung San Suu Kyi is truly an unsung hero," Jim Carrey says in the clip.
At this time, the YouTube video has 143,746 views, 262 comments and was rated as favorite by 311 users although he was added only 2 days ago.
As you can see, YouTube serves as a very useful video sharing platform for many purposes, not only for sharing clips with other Internet users. Some time ago, YouTube managed to save a woman's life after she was diagnosed with leukemia. The woman posted a clip on YouTube to inform people about the disease and to provide more details about the treatment. She managed to find a matching bone marrow in Denmark that also saved her life after the video recorded an impressive number of views and comments posted by the users.