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...There will be change," the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi once said, "because all the military have are guns." Perhaps that was true in 1988. Today, the generals have much more than guns. They have huge revenues from oil and gas, relations with powerful neighbors India and China, and the support - occasionally the censure - of fellow members of ASEAN. They have a large standing army that has struck cease-fires with most of the ethnic rebel armies ranged against it and set about annihilating the rest. In many ways - economically, militarily, politically, regionally - Burma's generals are better...
...democrats. Suu Kyi has spent 13 of the past 19 years in detention. Her party, the National League for Democracy, is virtually extinct. Last September's protests radicalized a new generation of young Burmese democrats, but more than 100 people were killed and thousands arrested in the regime's crackdown. Many of the 88 Student Generation are behind bars. No wonder, then, that some Burmese democrats are now considering more violent forms of protest. Leading Burmese journalist Aung Zaw recently recalled conversations with a senior dissident and a monk. The dissident was seeking funds to plant bombs...
...when Burma signed the charter is nothing short of willful ignorance. Yes, ASEAN did speak forcefully on July 20 when Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yeo said the bloc's members felt "deep disappointment" that Burma in May prolonged the detention of opposition figurehead and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. But any mention of that negative emotion was excised from the formal communiqué issued by ASEAN the following day. And an initial flurry of excitement caused by Yeo when he said that his Burmese counterpart had told him Suu Kyi might possibly be released in six months' time turned...
...just met with Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein. What is your understanding of the continuing detention of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi? When I met [Burma's leaders], they are normal people. The [Burmese] military explains that they will release her if she [agrees to] stay away from politics. They hate each other. Right or not, I cannot [say.] If world [leaders] want me to talk to the Burmese and ask them to release Aung San Suu Kyi, I will do it. But as Prime Minister of Thailand, I cannot mention that [I want her released.] Because the [Thai...
...country, two systems" policy, voters in Hong Kong may directly elect half of their 60 legislators, but Beijing retains the power to appoint the territory's chief executive. Lee has doggedly lobbied for greater electoral freedom for Hong Kong citizens. "Martin is for Hong Kong what Aung San Suu Kyi is for Burma, and what the Dalai Lama is for Tibet," says Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, the Washington D.C. pro-democracy organization that awarded Lee its Democracy Award in 1997. "He's the strong voice, the person who's been there such a long time...