70 - Conniving with Putin-like Strong Men Rarely Pays: Myanmar and Sri Lanka
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Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of the general who won independence from Britain and the striking victor in three all-out popular elections (1990, 2015, and 2020), thought that she could commune with today’s Myanmar army generals and eventually out-maneuver them to gain power as the political leader of her people. She aligned herself, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1991, with the generals when they cruelly ethnic cleansed Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar’s west in 2016-2017, and spoke approvingly of that genocide before the International Criminal Court.
70 - Conniving with Putin-like Strong Men Rarely Pays: Myanmar and Sri Lanka
70 - Conniving with Putin-like Strong Men…
70 - Conniving with Putin-like Strong Men Rarely Pays: Myanmar and Sri Lanka
Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of the general who won independence from Britain and the striking victor in three all-out popular elections (1990, 2015, and 2020), thought that she could commune with today’s Myanmar army generals and eventually out-maneuver them to gain power as the political leader of her people. She aligned herself, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1991, with the generals when they cruelly ethnic cleansed Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar’s west in 2016-2017, and spoke approvingly of that genocide before the International Criminal Court.