Column: The Lady is no champ | The Bangkok Post – WRITER: ALAN DAWSON
As fires consume villages on the Myanmar side of the border, Rohingya have sought shelter on the Bangladesh side. (AP photo)
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Aung San Suu Kyi went to Manila to celebrate her second anniversary (Nov 8) as elected leader of Myanmar. Nine Asean colleagues and a few foreign bigwigs played along but she’s not getting the international respect due a de facto president and Nobel Peace laureate any more.
Ms Suu Kyi has just pretty much finished either leading or tolerating the greatest ethnic cleansing in SoutheastAsia since Pol Pot led the 1970s pogrom and autogenocide of Democratic Kampuchea. Her army and militant Buddhist constituency displaced 700,000 people. They fled to Bangladesh, which is tolerating them so long as the Turkish-Saudi aid pipeline flows.
The human tragedy hurts but the discovery that the global hope for democracy and human rights is wearing shoes merely to hide her clay feet has come as a shock.
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Courtesy: The Bangkok Post | 19 Nov 2017 at 04:30 | WRITER: ALAN DAWSON
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