Immorality of power: why India ‘saddens’ Suu Kyi

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http://www.firstpost.com/politics/suu-kyi-sad-17628.html

As a student of politics at Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi in the early 1960s, and the daughter of Burma’s ambassador to India, Aung San Suu Kyi had a front row seat to the world’s biggest democratic experiment.

And although the post-Independence euphoria in India was already giving way to intense political bickering - and bruising wars with Pakistan and, later, China, India’s stature as the only working democracy in the subcontinent inspired her enough, years later, to launch a pro-democracy movement in her homeland.

But released last year after nearly two decades in detention by Myanmar’s military rulers, Suu Kyi sees India as much less of an inspiration. Indeed, she confesses to a certain “sadness” that India appears to have lost its moorings – and its strength as a voice for moral good on the world stage. Where once it was a lead player and an inspiration in the anti-colonial movement, it was now openly embracing Myanmar’s military junta, which had robbed her of her election victory in 1990 and had jailed her.

Participating from Yangon in a live video question-and-answer sessions with students at the Hong Kong University on Monday, Suu Kyi said she feels “sad” that “India is not as concerned about our fate as we would like them to be.”

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1. I agree

Its a travesty that India is trying to cozy up to the junta because it fears China already has a leg in that door. The present congress government which rules India is known for its lack of backbone and would not dare to stand up against the Junta as they should :(

I really respect Suu Kyi and I wish that the present Indian government would lose the next election(seems likely) and the new one would usher in change. We cannot let democratic advocates like Suu Kyi behind if we are to profess democratic values.

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2. i think suu kyi is a pretty terrific human being. nt