DICTATOR WATCH<\/p>\n
April 15, 2017<\/p>\n
In her March 30, 2017 State of the Union speech, Aung San Suu Kyi\u00a0said:<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, if you all think I am not good enough for our country and our people,\u00a0if someone or some organization can do better than us, we are ready to\u00a0step down.\u201d\u00a0Fair enough. Suu Kyi has proven herself unfit to lead Burma, also known as\u00a0Myanmar, in countless ways, foremost among them:<\/p>\n
She refuses to speak out against and otherwise work to end the crimes\u00a0against humanity perpetrated by the Burma Army and the Police against the\u00a0country\u2019s ethnic minorities. These include at present the genocide of the\u00a0Rohingya in the West and the Civil War against the Kachin and other groups\u00a0in the North, and in prior years against the Shan, Karenni and Karen. She\u00a0has signaled her intention to block a United Nations investigation into\u00a0the atrocities being committed against the Rohingya.<\/p>\n
She acts as an autocrat in her own right, ignoring advice from dedicated\u00a0civil society groups, and opposing protests by the public when they\u00a0attempt to protect their rights.\u00a0She has supported the military regime\u2019s racial prejudices, including by\u00a0refusing to field Muslim candidates for Parliament under the National\u00a0League for Democracy banner.<\/p>\n
She has helped business cronies of the regime, and taken donations from\u00a0them, at the same time failing to implement a program to reverse the\u00a0appalling poverty that the people of Burma endure.<\/p>\n
Suu Kyi has been in power for a year, and some people are saying that she\u00a0should be given more time. But she has actually been a Member of\u00a0Parliament already for five years, and she has been a \u201cpro-democracy\u201d\u00a0leader for twenty-nine. What has she really done? Why has she refused to\u00a0use her voice to energize the people to oppose the generals? If she hasn\u2019t\u00a0done anything strong and decisive in all this time, is there any reason to\u00a0expect that she, or Burma under her leadership, will change?<\/p>\n
Aung San Suu Kyi should fulfill her pledge and step down from her\u00a0positions as State Counsellor, MP, and head of the NLD. She should retire\u00a0from the political scene. Burma needs new democratic leadership, now.<\/p>\n
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DICTATOR WATCH April 15, 2017 In her March 30, 2017 State of the Union speech, Aung San Suu Kyi\u00a0said: \u201cSo, if you all think I am not good enough for our country and our people,\u00a0if someone or some organization can do better than us, we are ready to\u00a0step down.\u201d\u00a0Fair enough. Suu Kyi has proven herself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}