Aung San Suu Kyi release: the lady goes free but nothing changes-12/11/10

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Aung San Suu Kyi release: the lady goes free but nothing changes

-12/11/10

(GOOD WISHES TO HER,HER SUPPORTERS AND FOLLOWERS,AS SHE IS FIGHTING AGAINST HER COUNTRY'S ARMY RULE TO GET IT DEMOCRATIZED,EVEN AS SHE IS "NAZARBANND" AT HER HOME FOR LAST 15YRS!!!....VIBHA)


Burma will release its imprisoned opposition leader but nothing will change in south east Asia's most benighted land.
Aung San Suu Kyi release: the lady goes free but nothing changes
Mrs Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize holder and daughter of the country's founding father Photo: EPA
By Ian MacKinnon in Bangkok 7:16PM GMT 12 Nov 2010

On the face of it, Burma will have experienced a tumultuous seven days.

The woman known simply as The Lady to her fellow Burmese will taste freedom. Her worldwide following will cautiously rejoice.

But the more significant event has already happened. Last Sunday's nationwide election provided the junta with a civilian face for the first time since it seized power in 1962.

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It was an outcome that Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been relegated to the sidelines since her National League for Democracy (NLD) dominated the last elections in 1990, was powerless to prevent. Now the generals, many of whom have exchanged their uniforms for lounge suits, are confident they can curtail Mrs Suu Kyi despite her enduring appeal as the rallying point for Burma's opposition.

When Mrs Suu Kyi's NLD contested the 1990 poll it was the only serious opposition and it won by a landslide. Now the opposition in Burma has been fractured by Sunday's elections. A splinter group of the NLD broke away to form the National Democratic Force (NDF) after Mrs Suu Kyi and her party decided to boycott the "sham" poll.

The NDF has so far only garnered a handful of seats out of the 164 it contested, but the divisions in the opposition ranks may dilute the voices raised against the pro-military government.

The Burmese people have been so cowed by years of repression that culminated in the brutal crackdown on the 2007 monk-led "Saffron Revolution" that they would not take to the streets again even if Mrs Suu Kyi issued the call.

Similarly, her impact abroad will be limited by her continued refusal to travel outside her country. The former Oxford housewife fears that she would be permanently exiled if she did.

In common with the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, she was conspicuously absent from a gathering of Nobel laureates in the Japanese city of Hiroshima yesterday.



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May 6, 2002: Aung San Suu Kyi smiling during a press conference after being freed from 19 months under house arrest, making a triumphant return to her party's headquarters in Yangon where she declared her release was unconditional

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Then two-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi, centre, is seen with her parents and two elder brothers in this 1947 photo. Her father, Aung San, the Burmese independence leader, was assassinated on July 19, 1947 and mother, Daw Khin Kyi, died on December 27, 1989 after a long illness

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