Aung San Suu Ky - under arrest why?

I thought it pertinent to start a thread as to why this woman is so feared by the [sic]Burmese government?


Give her a chance to speak IMHO?

GumbyLearner said:

I thought it pertinent to start a thread as to why this woman is so feared by the [sic]Burmese government?


Give her a chance to speak IMHO?

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To keep at bay impending democracy breaking out in Burma.
Not good for business apparently.

Well if the smack can be kept at bay and the European ( UK & Fra) Natural Gas interests can be ignored she might get a say.

This lady deserves a say. I'm sure Weary Dunlop would want her to have a SAY!

Smack and growing

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3294

Some analysts have suggested it is because of her uncompromising attitude to the military junta.If she is let out of detention and gains any power she has vowed to bring the junta to account in the courts.
There would be no reconciliation as in South Africa.
So as long as she maintains this hardline stance the military junta will leave her martyr herself.
If she was free and there was overwhelming support for her many members of the junta would be trouble.

Senator Jim Webb leaves Burma with John Yettaw

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25935353-12377,00.html

US Senator Jim Webb will fly out of Burma tomorrow with an American convicted to seven years imprisonment after securing his release from the military regime.
"I am grateful to the Burmese government for honouring these requests," Mr Webb.

"It is my hope that we can take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying a foundation of goodwill and confidence-building in the future."

Mr Webb, a Democrat who is close to US President Barack Obama, became the first US official to hold talks with junta leader Than Shwe and also held talks with detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.

He said the junta agreed to free US national John Yettaw, who was convicted along with Aung San Suu Kyi after the American swam uninvited to the Nobel laureate's lakeside home.

"Yettaw will be officially deported on Sunday morning," Webb's office said.

"Senator Webb will bring him out of the country on a military aircraft that is returning to Bangkok on Sunday afternoon."

Mr Webb said he also urged the military regime to free Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent most of the last two decades under house arrest.

What's the name of that lady again?

19 years after winning the election and being under house arrest for doing so, she deserves to be allowed to rule

Perhaps the military in Burma do not trust western democracy?Perhaps they believe it can be easily manipulated by outside forces?
In Thailand the popularly elected government was twice overturned recently.The last time with the blessing of the King's advisers.Not as brutal as in Burma but generally the same result.
Perhaps the western-educated Suu-Ky is not trusted by the people with the real power ?
In some countries the democratic will of the people is not taken seriously.

dbcok

why does a military force have a mandate to dictate what can and cant be trusted to govern?

in fiji we see a military saying the same thing

in korea its also the case

military ruling societies tend to lack the ability to be answerable to their own laws, what every the state of the fragile democracy or rule prior to their takeover.

in burma there is constant human rights violations going on for decades, genocide of entire towns and populace.

the karen hold really no status, they are displaced and dispossessed

australia and the british have turned a blind eye to this problem for the entire duration of the regime.

anyone who speaks out against the atrocities are instantly jailed.

burma is a dead issue in the australian vocabulary, its one junta to scary for the politicians and the people here would not care a less about the burmese themselves, similar to the experience to the timorese and west papua. the later being he largest province of indoenesia (by decree and not by any vote by the papuans themselves), and its the most resource rich outside of timors oil and gas fields which australia desperately needed access to, and like timor, papua is not in any way historically, culturally, connected to jakarta and its religions and laws and culture are as far away from jakarta as anyone could imagine.. but papua was handed to them as a free gift by someone who thought they had the authority to give it to them.. a fatal mistake that will be corrected as history progresses on there. indonesia has no rights to the riches of papua and unless the current genocide and the political and cultural annihilation in papua ceases, we will face some similar regime there for a lot longer in papua.

i think myself that Australia knows less about its nearest neighbors than it does about anyone..

Why do you think that Australia was more interested in Timor than Papua.
My guess is that ,after conversations with the US,they were warned that Papua was a no-go area.
What you are talking about is real politics with places like Burma.In Egypt the ruling cliche just bans any party that may be a threat to them.
Interesting to see if Obama can overcome unelected forces to introduce healthcare reform in the US.He has a democratic mandate to do so.