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Suu Kyi to ‘tweet’ after release
Burma’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wants to start using Twitter when she is released from house arrest to communicate with people around the world, her lawyer said Monday.
Suu Kyi, whose current term of house arrest is due to end next month, has been locked up in her lakeside home with no internet access since 2003, long before the popular micro-blogging website was launched.
“Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has said to me that she wants to have a Twitter account to speak and discuss with the world’s teenagers,” her lawyer Nyan Win said after visiting the Nobel Peace Prize winner. “Daw” is a term of respect in Burma.
“She said she wanted to talk with youths as she wanted to know their opinions regarding political, economic and social issues. She said she can be in touch with them every day if she has this account.”
Suu Kyi is due to be released on 13 November, just days after the military-ruled country holds its first election in 20 years, although some fear the generals may find an excuse to keep her locked up.
The pro-democracy icon’s party won the last election in 1990 but was never allowed to take power, and several periods of confinement mean she has spent most of the past two decades in detention.
Burma’s Supreme Court held a hearing Monday on Suu Kyi’s latest appeal against her house arrest, but did not announce a decision on whether they would agree to consider the application.
“We have to wait about two weeks for the judgement,” said Nyan Win. “We are satisfied with our arguments. We’re hoping they will accept the case.”
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party has been dissolved by the authorities because it chose to boycott the 7 November vote, saying the rules were unfair.
Burma has been ruled by the military since 1962 and critics say the poll is a charade aimed at putting a veneer of legitimacy over the junta’s rule.
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The rule of SPDC is illegitimate.
The detention of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (and all other political prisoners)is unlawful.
The 2008 “constitution” is illegal.
The up-coming “election” or whatever you call it is out of bounds.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, NLD and associates, and the people of Burma
are rightful lords of the land.
It is metta (goodwill for all, loving kindness) that will finally prevail, not the brute force that cannot stand the test of time.
Whether or not her twitter is allowed by the brute force does not matter a whit for the long run. She, NLD and its individible associates and supporters are a formiddlable force for the jumta and it is shemelessly afraid of it, un-soldier-like.
True soldiers are brave to meet a sword with a sword, a gun with a gun and a tooth for a tooth. But Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters hold no sword, no gun, not even a club in their hands. Don’t the military rulers have any intellectual capacity to face the intellect of this adversary? The last five decades have indicated that they didn’t. But that is a monstrous accusation. For, I think that there are morally sound and intelligent people in the military. U Than Shwe and his cromies may not be. But that does not necessarily mean that there are no others who are good at heart and intellectually capable of withstanding opportunism and cronyism, and not aftaid, so as to truly serve the people and the country.
Come, good soldiers. Rise and make amends to our tragicomic history moulded by the self-seeking generals of the past five decades.
Let us help our people make way for a genuine betterment of life.
From wanting to lead Burma’s “Second Struggle for Independence” to wanting to tweet. It’s been a long journey…..
Why can’t she speak up on real issues, like the big dam projects or Thailand’s proposed investment at Tavoy? Or how she would tackle water and electricity problems or landlessness?
Maybe I’m expecting too much.
U Soe Thein, as it seems to me, is not ecpecting too mujch of Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi. In fact he is ecxpeting too little.
I have a hunch, or a trust if you like, that she is capable of doing great things, including the items U Soe Thein has included in his list.
But mean time she must tackle isues that are basic to solution of all the problems that are mjunta-created ot any other. She needs an unremitting support from
I like Aung San Suu Kyi. But I have to be honest and say that I have not heard her say or write anything over the past twenty years that would make me think that she actually understands complex economic or security issues or has a good grasp of international relations. Her main achievement seems to have been to focus international attention on Burma and get support for Western sanctions. I’m don’t think this has been a good thing. I hope she will change her mind on this when she is released.
Burma stand isolated for long decades, and finally geting open economy because of 1988 revolutions; the benefir goes direct to Militeray not to the people. Aung San su Kyi is voluntering her life for Burma, which we all have a duty to serve, like Daw Su, we better work for our own land.