Is the Burmese army remaking a democratic icon of Aung San Suu Kyi?
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Protesters demand the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, Naypyidaw, March 4, 2021. AFP - STR
By: Guillaume Naudin Follow
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Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest.
While the protest against the coup d'état of the Burmese army of February 1 is still bloodily suppressed, the appearance of the pro-democracy leader in court scheduled for today has again been postponed.
She is still in the residence from which she de facto ruled the country before the bloody coup.
Functions which put her in a delicate position and which undermined her aura because of her inaction in the Rohingya crisis, the Muslim majority victim of genocide according to the United Nations.
Is the Burmese army remaking a democratic icon of Aung San Suu Kyi?
This is the question of the day.
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To discuss it:
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière,
ethnologist, specialist in Burma, researcher at the CNRS at the South-East Asia Center.
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Sophie Boisseau du Rocher
, associate researcher at the Asia Center of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).
Phone
Frédéric Debomy
, comic book writer and writer, has worked for 20 years with the Burmese democratic movement and author of numerous books on Burma, among others, "
Aung San Suu Kyi, Rohingya and Buddhist extremists"
, Massot editions, 2020
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