Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is free.
A lady whose example of moral courage I have admired for some time. The question is, how long will the Nazi thugs who run Burma let her stay free? We should not forget that her party won a general election in Burma the last time one was held – in 1990 – but, instead of letting her take her place as the country’s leader, she was placed into house arrest. I hope, for the sake of the people of Burma, that the Nazi Junta has finally accepted that their time has come.
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It’s excellent news I agree, but from what I have read in the press today, I doubt she would have been freed if they thought that there was any danger of her being a serious threat to the regime.
I would love to think so, Bravo, but leopards don’t lose their spots.
Whilst watching it on the news, I was anxious that some idiot would take a shot at her, thankfully that didn’t happen.
From a small cage into a larger cage…but progress.
CWJ. Let’s hope so.
How long free?
About two weeks.
It’s Burma
I see that at last SKY have resorted back to calling the place Burma as have the BBC (BBC World) CNN still for some reason refer to it as Myanmar, I switch channels when I here the word.
Soutie, I always say Burma also but I just couldn’t resist the alliteration 😀
I can understand that, I also get quite pissed off when people use the term ‘Mandela’ (be it ‘moment’ ‘movement’ whatever), I suppose you had to be there to understand the significance and gravitas of a true ‘Mandela moment’
My Old Man was with the RAF in the Pacific when they had their ‘Hiroshima moment’ never quite been able to reconcile anything current with that!
Thanks for posting this, Bravo. I had intended to do so.
I broke my Golden Rule for not signing petitions a few weeks ago, by signing an Amnesty International’s petition to the government to make noises about Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi. I most certainly would not have done had they accosted me with the word “Myanmar”.
I doubt that she will retain her freedom for long. I hope that I am wrong.
Just a cotton-pickin’ momento, friends! Do you insist on Siam, Ceylon and Persia too? 🙂
No we don’t Janus, but we insist on Burma because Myanmar is the name that the Junta have given Burma – not those Burmese whose opinions on Burma we respect.
But Boa, ain’t that equally true of the others I’ve mentioned?
Possibly Janus 🙂 But I don’t know any Siamese, Ceylonese or Persians – but I do know a very nice Burmese lady…
Not Persia, I usually say Ceylon, and Thailand hasn’t been Siam for as long as I can remember. Colour me inconsistent.
PS. I usually say Bombay, as do all my Indian colleagues, and friends.
Ah oui, mes amis! Londres, Angleterre et Pays de Galles, etc…. 🙂
Oddly enough, I was in a shop in the UK where someone was asking the owner where he came from. He looked at me and asked what I thought. I instinctively said “Persia” (geography was never my strong point and it’s got a lot worse since they keep changing the names) … The guy looked stunned and simply said “You’re right”…