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    Well working with a military didn’t really work out for her anyway did it, so in hindsight she probably should have protested against the military’s treatment of the Rohingya.
    I don’t imagine the people’s of the world will be very interested in how long the military keep her locked up in prison or at home this time. I wish the general populace of Myanmar well but their political and military leadership can all hang together.
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    Yes I remember the lauding of her in most media outlets and the heralding of a brave new dawn when she was released and gained ‘power’. It’s obvious now that she only shone in juxtapose to a military junta and any ‘power’ was dependant on the acquiescence of that junta.
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    A very compelling character, to say the least. I wish her well. She is a smart and talented one.
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    She probably was given the information available to her, hindsight is a wonderful thing, at the time. But the fact that she’s just another pragmatic player in the brutal game means I personally don’t much care either way about her individual fate. Also it’s proof if it’s needed that democracy based on the acquiescence of a military junta isn’t democracy at all.
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    All cultural change, when pushed through fast, ends in violence.
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    Poor Burma.
    It’s been the Palestine of Asia for centuries.

    God knows which intervention could work over there.
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    @shavixmir said
    Poor Burma.
    It’s been the Palestine of Asia for centuries.

    God knows which intervention could work over there.
    For centuries? Actually, in the 19th century (and despite the loss of its lower territories to the British), Burma was doing pretty well, especially under the modernising King Mindon (d.1878):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindon_Min

    "During Mindon's reign, the following reforms were undertaken: centralization of the kingdom's internal administration, introduction of a salary system for the bureaucracy (to dampen the authority and income of bureaucrats), fixed judicial fees, comprehensive penal laws, reorganization of the financial system, removal of trade barriers including custom duties, reform of the thathameda taxes (to increase direct taxation), and modernization of the kingdom's army and introduction of new police forces."

    In the early postwar years, after independence and before Ne Win's coup, Burma was apparently the richest country in South-East Asia.
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