Many Indians hold her in high esteem as a contemporary Nelson Mandela-like figure whose non-violent struggle was based on the vision of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Several of Myanmar’s ethnic rebel groups are eager to start peace negotiations with the next government, they said Sunday after the election win by the opposition National League for Democracy.
The NLD defeated the current army-backed ruling party.
The southeast Asian nation was ruled for five decades by a brutal junta that smothered opponents with violence and jail.
With your historic victory you brought Myanmar into the global family of democracies. She knows that she can not be the president under the existing constitution unless it is amended because she had a foreign spouse and two children with foreign nationality.
This story was updated at 1:15pm to add Ye Htut’s acknowledgement of Thein Sein having received Suu Kyi’s letter and to update election results to reflect the release of more information at noon by the UEC. This dual-track approach is necessitated by the refusal of the Myanmarese military to quit politics or relinquish its command over the economy and policymaking.
Senior ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) member and lower house speaker Shwe Mann-who was among those voted out of the legislature last week-addressed a “lame duck” session of parliament consisting of pre-election lawmakers, which resumed Monday following a recess period during the polls.
It is hard to understand that, before the election, Suu Kyi said she would take a position “above the president” if the NLD triumphed.
The NLD’s anthem has a stirring line – “Go, go, go away dictatorship”. Aware of the role these states can play in her electoral victory, in the past one year Suu Kyi had travelled frequently to such areas.
As a compassionate Buddhist who practices embracing one’s enemies, “The Lady” aims to convince the incorrigible Army establishment to work together with her in the interest of Myanmar’s long-suppressed citizens. Public opinion in Myanmar also turned increasingly bitter towards China’s plundering of their natural wealth and its exploitation of ethnic minority resentments to sustain hegemony.
Observers say it is imperative that Suu Kyi build friendly ties with the military elite, which retains significant political and economic power.
Clymer, who taught a course at Yangon University in Myanmar in 2013, resolved to write his new book while Aung San Suu Kyi was still on house arrest.
Return of democracy in Myanmar. Traditional Indian diplomatic lethargy and reluctance to “export democracy to other countries” has incurred costs and hurt its image at crucial junctures.
“But we will be okay with a government led by the NLD”.
Despite the changes in the political landscape after the election, the Myanmar people as well as the global community must understand that a true sense of national reconciliation will not happen until the demands of ethnic minorities are politically resolved, the military comes under the control of a democratically elected civilian government, and the 2008 Constitution is no longer the basis of democratisation.
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“We need to prepare to hand over duties systematically and cleanly to the government that will emerge in accord with the desire of the people”, Information Minister Ye Htut said in a Facebook post on Friday, a day after a cabinet meeting.
