An additional 7 years has been added to Aung San Suu Kyi’s imprisonment, taking the total up to 33 years. She is now 77 years old I believe…
When you look at some of the charges she faced and has been jailed for, the implausibility is so obvious. What would someone like her do with embezzled funds? I mean, this is a lady who spent decades fighting for what she believed in. Unfortunately, it is doubtful many will come to her aid this time around. She had a chance to do the right thing when she was briefly in power – well, if she ever was really in control – and even if such power was limited behind the scenes, her words, her influence at the time, could have made a difference but she showed what many saw as her true colours and we saw what went on with those marginalised folk
Surely she must now see the precariousness of her position? Once someone the whole world respected and many campaigned selflessly for her freedom years back. Now herself a pariah and much as it is doubtful that the charges against her are fair or proven, she may now find her circumstances dire, with little to no international support this time around
Shortsightedness on her part?
What would it take for leaders to step back before falling off a cliff edge? So many of them over the decades, see doom coming, plough ahead and end up in peril! Seems a pretty persistent flaw…
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