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[elbows]

She's lost another friend.

Suu Kyi 'lacks moral leadership'

Veteran US diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to advise on the Rohingya crisis.

He claimed the panel was a "whitewash" and accused Ms Suu Kyi, his long-time friend, of lacking "moral leadership".

Myanmar said he should "review himself" over the "personal attack".

Mr Richardson added that Ms Suu Kyi had been "furious" when he raised the case of two Reuters reporters on trial in Myanmar.

Mr Richardson, a former adviser to the Clinton administration, has known Ms Suu Kyi for decades, and visited the Nobel laureate while she was under house arrest in the 1990s.

He told Reuters he was resigning from the advisory board because it was a "whitewash" and he did not want to be part of a "cheerleading squad for the government".

He was "alarmed by the lack of sincerity with which the critical issue of citizenship was discussed," he wrote in a statement.

 

[hipipol]

Feet of clay and arse of weak

Everyone knows now it was ego not conviction
Silly cow

 

[Humberto]

Article

 

[camouflage]

Feet of clay and arse of weak

Everyone knows now it was ego not conviction
Silly cow

Not read into this much, but the impression I get is somewhere about the usual commerce-class struggle-for-freedom to trade against the unimaginative force-weilders in charge while stomping carefully on the heads of the poor/marginalised for purchase. Plus a long running Burmese ruling-class contempt for the 'Bangladeshis' and their Islam.

 

[RainbowTown]

Aung San Suu Kyi - rarely has a once feted leader fallen from grace so quickly, so dramatically.

From Hero to Zero in a blink of an eye.

 

[teqniq]

Rohingya crisis: 132 MPs across region call for Myanmar to be referred to ICC

 

[teqniq]

So, will anything be done to hold those responsible to account? I'd like to think so but I won't hold my breath.

Myanmar's military accused of genocide in damning UN report

 

[Kaka Tim]

media and polticians still pussy footing around Aung San Suui - Its still all "she should have done more" "disappointing that she didn't use her moral authority" . Fuck that - shes a mass murdering genocidal racist and should be in the dock/strung up alongside the Myanma Military.

 

[teqniq]

Myanmar army fakes photos and history in sinister rewrite of Rohingya crisis

 

[DJWrongspeed]

I've been to Myanmar, read the history, I'm sure the 'The Lady' could have handled this better for the image of Myanmar but I'm sure there was very little she was able to do. Her role is hard fought but tenuous to the ground troops committing atrocities. The military are in power, her hands are tied. Plus the majority are anti-muslim anyway.

The most important thing to know is that Myanmar has been secluded from the world for 50yrs and countless massacres have taken place under the military leadership. It's been in the longest running civil war on the planet. It's business as usual for them except now all of sudden the world is watching. Perhaps the first signs of this were Cyclone Nargis stories from '08. Why is the beautiful coast of southern Myanmar undeveloped near Thailand?? Why don't they want folks heading there?

I'm not defending her but trying to show a context sadly lacking in all the anti Ang SSK criticism.

 

[cantsin]

I've been to Myanmar, read the history, I'm sure the 'The Lady' could have handled this better for the image of Myanmar but I'm sure there was very little she was able to do. Her role is hard fought but tenuous to the ground troops committing atrocities. The military are in power, her hands are tied. Plus the majority are anti-muslim anyway.

The most important thing to know is that Myanmar has been secluded from the world for 50yrs and countless massacres have taken place under the military leadership. It's been in the longest running civil war on the planet. It's business as usual for them except now all of sudden the world is watching. Perhaps the first signs of this were Cyclone Nargis stories from '08. Why is the beautiful coast of southern Myanmar undeveloped near Thailand?? Why don't they want folks heading there?

I'm not defending her but trying to show a context sadly lacking in all the anti Ang SSK criticism.

even if a lack real authority prevents ASK stopping the military from it's brutality, if she was even remotely deserving of her past plaudits / reputation, and actually gave a fuck about the Rohinghya, she would have let the world know / gone into exile etc .

 

[DJWrongspeed]

even if a lack real authority prevents ASK stopping the military from it's brutality, if she was even remotely deserving of her past plaudits / reputation, and actually gave a fuck about the Rohinghya, she would have let the world know / gone into exile etc .

Fair point but I don't doubt for a minute her criticism of the military could be used as an excuse to attack or end the NLD's position of power in parliament surely? This is nuts me writing this, who knows what's really going on. I will investigate.....

 

[Pickman's model]

even if a lack real authority prevents ASK stopping the military from it's brutality, if she was even remotely deserving of her past plaudits / reputation, and actually gave a fuck about the Rohinghya, she would have let the world know / gone into exile etc .

Another idol turns out to have more than feet of clay shocker

 

[teqniq]

 

[teqniq]

This interview has come about because Bangladesh had a forced repatriation agreement they had reached with with Myanmar - currently suspended.

 

[ska invita]

Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi detained as military seizes control

The army seizes elected leaders and imposes a curfew, alleging fraud in November's election.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Spymaster]

Looks like something's actually happening here.

 

[purves grundy]

It's been building for a while. But still, what the military are risking here is their constitution, which guarantees them independent power for good. Why?

 

[SpackleFrog]

Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi detained as military seizes control

The army seizes elected leaders and imposes a curfew, alleging fraud in November's election.

www.bbc.co.uk

Huge. I don't know a great deal about Myanmar, but am I right in thinking that she's defended the military and their persecution of Rohingya Muslims? Shows that there's nothing to be gained from compromising with state forces.

 

[ska invita]

Huge. I don't know a great deal about Myanmar, but am I right in thinking that she's defended the military and their persecution of Rohingya Muslims? Shows that there's nothing to be gained from compromising with state forces.

seems so
good brief rundown on her here Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar democracy icon who fell from grace

 

[ska invita]

Looks like something's actually happening here.

exactly
not sure theres much of troll angle here for you unless you want to start defending the military

 

[belboid]

She's a piece of shit and corrupt as fuck. Which is slightly less corrupt than the military.

One year military takeover announced.

 

[Humberto]

She's 75. This ain't the home counties.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

 

[tim]

She's 75. This ain't the home counties.

When under house-arrest she lives in a palace on an island in the middle of a lake. The only major discomfort she'll face is that the BBC have sacked the "Pervert Cornflake".

 

[TopCat]

Her years in exile were filled regularly with fawning accounts in western media. The Guardian loved her. Then she was free and many thousands died.

 

[Spymaster]

exactly
not sure theres much of troll angle here for you unless you want to start defending the military

Well at least you seem to understand half of what’s going on in this case.

 

[kebabking]

I saw 'military coup' in my twitter headlines when I got up and my first thought was that 2021 is putting a solid shift in....

 

[MickiQ]

She was very popular with the liberati when she was under house arrest and the military ruled Myanmar but its easy to attract praise when you're not doing much but making statements and giving interviews. Her performance in office has been much less impressive and she seems to have been totally indifferent to the treatment of the Rohynga though I suppose we'll probably never know just how freedom to act she ever actually had.
She is apparently massively popular in Myanmar itself since the Rohynga are pariahs that no-one cares about. But I suspect there will be a lot less support internationally for her this time even if a few Govts including ours make the obligatory speech about respecting election results.

 

[kebabking]

She was very popular with the liberati when she was under house arrest and the military ruled Myanmar but its easy to attract praise when you're not doing much but making statements and giving interviews. Her performance in office has been much less impressive and she seems to have been totally indifferent to the treatment of the Rohynga though I suppose we'll probably never know just how freedom to act she ever actually had.
She is apparently massively popular in Myanmar itself since the Rohynga are pariahs that no-one cares about. But I suspect there will be a lot less support internationally for her this time even if a few Govts including ours make the obligatory speech about respecting election results.

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No one cares, it's gone from being a military dictatorship with the thinest veneer of civilian democracy - provided by someone with an extremely dodgy record when it comes to the condemnation of genocide - to just being a military dictatorship.

Other states care about the consequences of this, but no one actually gives a shit about this in itself.