aung san suu kyi
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puddlesplasher
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And they say people don't change their opinions. Or is it a case of being a typical politician.
jtrade
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She was under long-term (many years) house arrest & was offered the opportunity to travel to her sick husband & their children overseas only on condition that she did not return to Myanmar.
What is really going now on is a complete mystery & I think it unwise to pre-judge a Nobel Peace laureate without all the facts.
Rob998
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Not really, she’s a racist.
Her father was murdered, I think, but he was a general in the Army and part of the elite so maybe that's what's going on with her ie trying to regain the family's place in the country.
Her father, Aung San, allied with the Japanese during World War II. Aung San founded the modern Burmese army and negotiated Burma's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947; he was assassinated by his rivals in the same year.
Assassination[edit]
On 19 July 1947, a gang of armed paramilitaries of former Prime Minister U Saw[11] broke into the Secretariat Building in downtown Rangoon during a meeting of the Executive Council (the shadow government established by the British in preparation for the transfer of power) and assassinated Aung San and six of his cabinet ministers, including his elder brother Ba Win, father of Sein Win, leader of the government-in-exile, the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB). A cabinet secretary and a bodyguard were also killed. U Saw was subsequently tried and hanged.
Many mysteries still surround the assassination. There were rumours of a conspiracy involving the British—a variation on this theory was given new life in an influential, but sensationalist, documentary broadcast by the BBC on the 50th anniversary of the assassination in 1997. What did emerge in the course of the investigations at the time of the trial, however, was that several low-ranking British officers had sold firearms to a number of Burmese politicians, including U Saw. Shortly after U Saw's conviction, Captain David Vivian, a British Army officer, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for supplying U Saw with weapons. Vivian escaped from prison during the Karen uprising in Insein in early 1949. Little information about his motives was revealed during his trial or after the trial.[12]
Cheese
Bitter lover
This.
Maybe, but that doesn't count really. Like all other third world rulers she aspires to staying in power, and this is easier when there is no opposition. The latter's religion or skin colour is IMO not of primary importance.
Basically she is a beautiful woman who was always great at playing that card for her own marketing, along with the white flower in her hair. Men from all over the world fall into this trap, and the media happily play the game. I am afraid mankind's learning curve is desperately flat when it comes to such tricks.
Apart from killing a million people in the Middle East as revenge for 9/11 George Bush gave us another long lasting horror: the "You are either with us or against us" doctrine. Pushing people into bunkers of extremism. And a green light for every other regime to force the same black/white choice onto everyone they can.
When the sea does rise it is likely many, many more will arrive. The coastal areas of Burma and Bangladesh will be the first very large area of very large population affected.