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« on: January 30, 2018, 12:59:15 PM »

State Counselor Suu Kyi was once idolized by the world. Many considered her "Asia's Mandela." Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell even compared her to Gandhi. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Now Aung is considered a villain, a traitor to democracy, someone who doesn't live up to her human rights principals. She has been silent as the military wages genocide on the Rohingya Muslims.

What the hell do you think is going on in her mind? Why is she meeting this crisis with inaction?
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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2018, 01:08:33 PM »

Because she's racist.
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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2018, 01:11:46 PM »


That hurts my heart. I loved her.
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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2018, 01:21:03 PM »

ASSK's father was a Burman nationalist who served under the Japanese puppet regime, and she has largely remained loyal to his legacy. And a key part of Burmese nationalism (that the Aung dynasty deeply wants) is a centralised state with little autonomy. Plus the Rohyinga are super unpopular in Myanmar, and nobody views them as "Burmese" (you can compare it how Roma are viewed in most of Europe, even amongst liberal and leftist circles); she is a politician after all and she is wary of far-right activists like Ashin Wirathu that are already sceptical of her due to her cultivated reputation; so she has let the military (themselves looking for an easy popularity boost, after their cratering reputations towards the end of official military rule) do their thing,
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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2018, 01:46:00 PM »

Yeah, the important (and horrifying) thing remember his that her stance on this issue is, in a Burmese context, a handwringingly wet and liberal one. Pause and let that sink in for a moment.
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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2018, 02:36:52 PM »

I love how McConnell praises her with the same generic platitude as everyone else, and you choose to highlight that instead of all the do-gooder bleeding hearts who have been practically eating her turds off a plate with a silver spoon for decades now. Remember when Volvo even used her to sell cars?
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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2018, 03:04:56 PM »

Opposition leaders to non-Western dictatorships are seldom the liberal democratic heroes most Western media like to portray them as.
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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2018, 03:42:36 PM »

I don't know enough about the Burmese politics, so I can only guess and hope to be corrected. She may have a strong "electoral" mandate, but the country was being ruled by a military establishment for many years and I wonder how strong would her position be to take on it, given anti-Rohyinga campaign is a military ball game.
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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2018, 04:42:24 PM »

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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2018, 07:33:43 PM »

Apart from whatever opinion she holds on this issue, she simply can't do much about anything without being deposed by the military
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« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2018, 07:52:09 PM »

A supermajority of Burmese support the military (which is now one of the most trusted institutions in Myanmar, amazingly) on this issue. How exactly is ASSK supposed to save the Rohingya from the heinous things the military is doing to them?
She is no flawless white knight like many thought. And she has no special power that she can somehow tap in to magically make the military change its mind. She is unable to shift the winds on an issue with these specific dimensions. Aang Sun Suu Kyi, is she supposed to be the Avatar or something?
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« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2018, 10:16:48 PM »

I have no problem with what she is doing.
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« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2018, 02:55:52 AM »

Crabcake, I don't think it's a case of political strategizing that just doesn't make sense to Western eyes.
In all accounts spending years abroad, then imprisoned has left her very very aloof. Like imagine Hillary's disconnect times 1000. Does not take criticism well.
In many ways, she's very similar to what would happen if one of the many leeches in the international "development" community assumed power. Yeah she has "good intentions," but has an instintinctive snobbiness and prejudice that prevents her from being the person so many saw her as.

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« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2018, 08:13:23 AM »

A true profile in cowardice.
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