{"id":1097,"date":"2017-05-07T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T18:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2017-05-07T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T18:33:49","slug":"has-suu-kyi-become-puppet-of-burmas-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/has-suu-kyi-become-puppet-of-burmas-generals\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Suu Kyi become puppet of Burma’s Generals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE ANTI-SUU KYI MOVEMENT<\/span><\/h2>\n

Ronald Watson|DICTATOR WATCH<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 7, 2017<\/p>\n

As far as I know, I was the very first person to criticize Aung San Suu\u00a0Kyi publicly. This occurred in my first Dictator Watch statement, from \u00a0February 2002 – End the Dialogue: An Open Letter to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.<\/em><\/p>\n

At that time, pretty much everyone supported her. I think a few people\u00a0from the ethnic nationalities were suspicious, about her lack of\u00a0cooperation with them, but this is Burma after all. No one was going to\u00a0confront her, and cause her to lose face. I realized that it would be\u00a0useful to say what people of the country, because of social form, were too\u00a0deferential to mention.<\/p>\n

In the statement I was exceedingly polite. I just pointed out that you\u00a0can\u2019t negotiate with tyrants, certainly from a position of weakness. She\u00a0was involved in a \u201cdialogue\u201d with the dictatorship, which had released\u00a0some political prisoners to give her ammunition that the approach might\u00a0yield real results. To my knowledge, this was the first time they \u201cplayed\u201d\u00a0her, used her to reduce the domestic and international pressure that their\u00a0human rights atrocities generated.<\/p>\n

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But it was absolutely clear that the\u00a0regime was not sincere, that the release was a token step, and that the\u00a0dialogue would never change anything. Now, fifteen years later, she is\u00a0still following the same failed strategy.<\/p>\n

My criticism subsequently became much more pointed, when she betrayed the\u00a0pro-democracy movement by reregistering the NLD in 2011, ending her\u00a0election boycott; when she ignored the new Burma Army offensives in the\u00a0North against the Kachin and other groups, also starting that year; and\u00a0when she refused to condemn the Muslim pogroms that were perpetrated the\u00a0following year, and which grew into the Rohingya genocide. I called her\u00a0\u201cthe worst person in Burma,\u201d and then compared her to Dictator Robert\u00a0Mugabe from Zimbabwe, who similarly changed from being a resistance leader\u00a0to an authoritarian ruler. Now, she has even progressed from surrendering\u00a0to the generals to actively covering-up and attempting to justify their\u00a0crimes.<\/p>\n

The people of Burma have to throw off their reservations and oppose her\u00a0forcefully. Let your voices be heard in London tomorrow (I wish I could be\u00a0there!), elsewhere around the world, and most importantly inside Burma\u00a0itself. If she has her way, you will always be dominated by the Tatmadaw.\u00a0You will never know true freedom. There will be no peace, and the crimes\u00a0against humanity will never cease.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Contact: Roland Watson,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

roland@dictatorwatch.org<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(www.dictatorwatch.org<\/em><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

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THE ANTI-SUU KYI MOVEMENT Ronald Watson|DICTATOR WATCH May 7, 2017 As far as I know, I was the very first person to criticize Aung San Suu\u00a0Kyi publicly. This occurred in my first Dictator Watch statement, from \u00a0February 2002 – End the Dialogue: An Open Letter to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. At that time, pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}