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Ang San Suu Kyi to be Released

  • 30-09-2010 3:30pm
    #1
    leincar
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    A lot of news agencies are reporting that Ang San Suu Kyi will be released by the Burmese military Junta after elections are held in November.

    If true and she is released it will probably be the best political news of the year.


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  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Such a crock of crap!

    AFTER the elections!!! How very bloody good of them!

    While I'm delighted to see that she can for yet another while actually step outside her own home (till they arrest her again!), I'm still disgusted that they are doing this after their corruptly win themselves back in to power again.


  • #3
    DrumSteve
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    Send Rambo in to sort this out.


  • #4
    bamboozle
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    leincar wrote: »
    A lot of news agencies are reporting that Ang San Suu Kyi will be released by the Burmese military Junta after elections are held in November.

    If true and she is released it will probably be the best political news of the year.

    After Bertie announcing he was interested in running for President...


  • #5
    Biggins
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    bamboozle wrote: »
    After Bertie announcing he was interested in running for President...
    No, thats reserved for the sad comedy section of the year.


  • #6
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    Burma is such a tragic country. I used to work with a Burmese man and he could tell you a story, thats for sure. There are as many monks in Burma (Around half a million) as soldiers (Around half a million) Tells you all you need to know. The ultimate bipolar nation.


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  • #7
    Scuid Mhór
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    bono's going to feel triumphant.


  • #8
    RATM
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    This is good news, I know the junta are doing it after the elections but if she gets the hell out of Burma after release she can concentrate on toppling the junta from the outside cause it sure ain't gonna happen from inside.
    Their shooting and beating of monks a while back shows just how far they'll go to stay in power and now the people are scared sh1tless to rise up against them.


  • #9
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    She is not leaving Burma; she has had the chance before (Her english husbands funeral) and she turned it down. So long as she lives, Burma has a moral centerpiece that cannot be touched. The woman is a saint, a hero... shít... I'm welling up here ;)


  • #10
    walrusgumble
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    bono sees the publicity and the dollars. Who will be the first band to play at the party?

    Ah, maybe that is unfair, he was afterall one of the first westerns to properly publicise the matter on a continous basis


  • #11
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    Denerick wrote: »
    She is not leaving Burma; she has had the chance before (Her english husbands funeral) and she turned it down. So long as she lives, Burma has a moral centerpiece that cannot be touched. The woman is a saint, a hero... shít... I'm welling up here ;)

    She should though if she wants rid of that junta once and for all. They don't care for morals. Its fair to say they can't kill her but they can lock her up again indefinitely and then control any revolt by the population by force. If she starts campaigning for democracy again this is the most likely outcome- back to square one and she's getting old now.

    Strategy wise she'd be better trying to affect change from the outside. China is the key to this impasse; they could send the order to collapse the junta in a heartbeat. She needs to lobby and harangue Western leaders to turn the screw on China when it comes to negotiating future trade deals.

    I'd love to see the Burmese rise up against the junta and overthrow them themselves. But they have seen how force will be used against them and are scared for their lives.


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