Myanmar opposition reappoints Suu Kyi as leader

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Suu Kyi reappointed as Myanmar opposition leader

Published: 10 Mar 2013 at 12.49
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Aung San Suu Kyi was re-elected as Myanmar opposition chief Sunday at a landmark congress that disappointed some members hoping for new blood in the wider leadership ahead of a key 2015 election.

Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to the media at a press conference in Yangon on March 10, 2013. Suu Kyi was re-elected Myanmar opposition leader at a landmark congress that stopped short of sweeping changes in its ageing top ranks ahead of key elections in 2015.

Hundreds of National League for Democracy (NLD) members gathered in Rangoon for their first national conference -- a display of political strength that would have been unthinkable under the former junta.

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Discussion 6 : 11 Mar 2013 at 09.006
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Please read: "Myanmar (Burma) "Pro-Democracy" Movement a Creation of Wall Street & London," the US and UK have documented themselves the substantial funding they have given ASSK and her opposition movement - and are the exact same interests propping up Thaksin Shinawatra and his faux-"pro-democracy" movement in Thailand, and the same interests propping up the IMF's Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia. It is literally region-wide neo-imperialism at work.
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Discussion 5 : 11 Mar 2013 at 04.325
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Yes, D.4, it is revealing to see redshirt/TS apologists slamming ASSK.

D.3, "Behind the scenes" there hasn't been much rhetoric from her because she has been under house arrest for years, guilty of nothing more than being a popular voice of the people, and doing so with stoicism and integrity. The junta has been one of the vilest dictatorships in modern history and Burma's not out of the woods yet.

D.2 What did the British pay for all those years she was "in opposition" locked up in her crumbling old house in Rangoon?
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Discussion 4 : 10 Mar 2013 at 22.264
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@ATNN whatever that is supposed to mean. It is obvious that you know nothing. Go read a bit before you decide to post. Geez, you must be a normal idiot Red Shirt.
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Discussion 3 : 10 Mar 2013 at 19.243
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Ok, I understand the character Aung San Suu Kyi plays is a very appealing one. The fact is, behind the scenes, her rhetoric doesn't match her record. What's more important, supporting a fantasy giving people false hope, or moving on to real leadership that can make good on the principles Suu Kyi and her Western backers are merely leveraging to hand Myanmar's wealth over to the Fortune 500?
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Discussion 2 : 10 Mar 2013 at 19.002
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She doesn't have clue how to govern. All those years in opposition, posing as the holy Lady, paid for by the British won't help her now when the realty is caving in on her.
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Discussion 1 : 10 Mar 2013 at 16.031
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The first warning sign regarding "Nobel laureate" Aung San Suu Kyi is the shower of support, praise, and funding by the US State Department and other insidious, warmonger corporate-financier backed faux NGO's like the Neo-Con run National Endowment for Democracy. The next was when she stood by silently complicit as her own supporters brutalized, even murdered Royhingya refugees. Myanmar has problems, Suu Kyi is a misdirection that will cost these people decades more of anguish, at the hands of the Fortune 500 instead of a junta.
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