Award Revoked from Aung San Suu Kyi

[Dill]

(03-08-2018, 12:14 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: every freedom fighter is a terrorist in their opponents' eyes

Rebel, certainly, but not always a terrorist.

In this case I'm guessing there are cultural frames of reference in play that are hard to read from outside. Kyi may understand direct confrontation with her military will not be effective, or appear to much of the country to be shaming Myanmar before the outside world.  Hence her moral paralysis, or a more oblique approach that appears to her the only route forward, even though we can't see it. Hence talk of effects of long dictatorship on the population, about which she could be right. And of course she might simply share the prejudices of her countrymen, and we didn't notice that when she was oppressed (just like people didn't notice Solzhenitsyn was a crazy authoritarian when the Soviets forbid his immigration). I would not have recalled the award without talking to her first--in private.

The oppression of Rohinga has gone on long enough to draw jihadis from the world over, making the conflict harder to sort out and resolve. Beyond the capacity of anyone in Myanmar, I'm sure.  Broken state in the making? This will likely eventually destabilize fragile Bengladesh as well, perhaps draw it into conflict with Myanmar.