Posts Tagged ‘Suu Kyi’

Ambition silences Myanmar’s freedom icon

November 26, 2013

Ambition silences Myanmar’s freedom icon November 24, 2013 10:05 pm by ROGER MITTON

Aung San Suu Kyi and the world of Buddhist Islamophobia

November 4, 2013

Aung San Suu Kyi and the world of Buddhist Islamophobia

Myanmar‘s Muslim minority, demonised and persecuted for decades, is facing a fresh wave of violence amid media silence. 03 Nov 2013

Maung Zarni
Maung Zarni is founder of the Free Burma Coalition and a fellow at the London School of Economics.

How can Aung San Suu Kyi – a Nobel Peace Prize winner – fail to condemn anti-Muslim violence? Because she is a hypocrite!

October 25, 2013

How can Aung San Suu Kyi – a Nobel Peace Prize winner – fail to condemn anti-Muslim violence?

The Telegraph. October 24th, 2013

I never thought I would write this, but Aung San Suu Kyi sent a shiver down my spine when she appeared on the Today programme this morning. Her equivocal attitude towards the violence suffered by Burma’s Muslim minority was deeply disturbing.

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Clever Daw Suu hitting the pride of Kaisu Singaporeans

October 5, 2013

Clever Daw Suu hitting the pride of Kaisu Singaporeans

Upon being briefed that Singapore’s education system was “workforce-oriented”, Suu Kyi, 68, said: “That made me think, what is work all about? What are human beings for? What are human lives about?”

Her departing words shook Singaporeans who had been led to believe in the superiority of the Singaporean development model for less developed countries.

“I think we have much to offer you, come and find out,” Suu Kyi said.

“Perhaps Singapore could learn from us on how to have a more relaxed way of life.”

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Aung San Suu Kyi loses her gloss for failing to denounce killings

May 19, 2013

Aung San Suu Kyi loses her gloss for failing to denounce killings

Where is Suu Kyi’s famous ‘moral authority’ as Muslim Rohingya homes are razed to the ground? BY Edward Loxton  29 Oct 2012

CHIANG MAI – The iconic international image of Burma’s charismatic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is rapidly losing its lustre as she maintains her silence on the continuing violence in her country’s westernmost Rakhine State. (more…)

Aung San Suu Kyi on Muslims in Burma : via ShingetsuNews Japan

April 26, 2013

Aung San Suu Kyi on Muslims in Burma : via ShingetsuNews Japan M-Media April 21st, 2013

Although there were criticisms to Aung San Suu Kyi because of her silence on violence against Muslims in Burma, in this video of Shingetsu news agency of Japan, we might find out that what Suu Kyi said is full of tactics and acceptable. But according to some analysts, there is also a worry that all sorts of Buddhists majority had been sealed their sights by military Junta and they might not be able to think well about what Suu Kyi is trying to point out.

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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s perilous pivot from icon to a zipped zilch

October 9, 2012

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives for a session of the Lower house of country's Parliament in Naypyitaw August 7, 2012. REUTERS-Soe Zeya TunSource: Special Report: Suu Kyi’s perilous pivot from icon to party boss

(Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is making a career change, from icon of liberty opposing Myanmar‘s junta to party boss in a fragile new quasi-democracy. The transition hasn’t been easy.

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The backlash Against Aung San Suu Kyi (which she deserved)

August 26, 2012

Source: The backlash Against Aung San Suu Kyi

Despite calls for her to speak out, the Burmese opposition politician is keeping a low-profile on the continued persecution of minorities in her country. By Peter Popham.

When Hillary Clinton meets Aung San Suu Kyi again—it is unlikely that the Burmese opposition leader’s visit to the U.S. next month will pass without a tête-a-tête between these two soul sisters—the secretary of state would be forgiven for saying, “I told you so.”

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Shamelessly Undemocratic, Xenophobic, Senile and Bigot U Win Tin, U Nyan Win, NL(un)D leaders and members Vs Daw Suu pretending to have Flu

July 13, 2012

Present problem is not just the illegal immigration across the border but about the permanent settlements and claiming as their own village, place of birth and country. At last they are claiming as if they are Myanmar Race, Myanmar Ethnic Minority and are demanding for their Rights. After that there may be demand for the separate state and even up to seceding or demand for independent state.

Undemocratic, Xenophobic and Bigot U Win Tin from Bama National League (formerly well known as NLD) on 15 June 2012

NLD က ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းကလည္း ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာကျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားမဟုတ္ဘူူးလုိ႔ DVB ကေျပာတာဖတ္လုိက္ရတယ္

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