[freeburma]

- ASSK has no power over military operations or Rohingya. Elected civilian government has no legal power over military.

- Only outcome of not defending military at UN would be sanctions or civilian government losing some of the little power they have, which would only harm situation more.

- ASSK does not want genocide or anything like that. She is slandered by ignorant press.

[pmontra]

> ASSK does not want genocide or anything like that. She is slandered by ignorant press.

Isn't failure to educate international press still a (big IMHO) failure?

Personally the result for me has been that she was once a kind of freedom hero, than became a kind of mass murderer and should have her Nobel prize revoked.

Then I read today that she's been almost a hostage of the military for all this time and she's getting some of my sympathy back again. However the trade she accepted to do feels bad and the signaling of being a hostage was totally missing.

[freeburma]

Currying favor with international press at expense of relations with military doesn’t help her party’s situation, or the people of Burma.

What is she supposed to do? Come out and denounce the military publicly, effectivey destroying what little relationship and understanding they’ve built with the military? That doesn’t accomplish anything. She already did that and sat in prison for 15 years.

Nobel peace prizes and moralizing westerners don’t help Burma. There’s little reason for her to care about what they think.

She’s been public about her strategy. She’s always said the only way forward is to build understanding and relationship with military. To work with the scraps given to them. To work through peaceful means. It’s either that or nothing. Rising up won’t really work, they tried that in 1988 and the military just murdered and jailed people until they stopped.