Suu Kyi a fig leaf for obscene military rule
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Roland Watson (“Coup, then counter-coup can set Myanmar straight”, Letters, December 24) made an interesting point that the rights situation in Myanmar is made worse by the fact that Aung San Suu Kyi is the de facto president.
Suppose that, during the Hitler era, Germany had elected a pro-democracy but toothless de facto president who refused to criticise Hitler. Would the rest of the world then have said, “The Germans can’t be that bad – look at the nice person they elected to be president.”
Is that imaginary leader I just referred to any different from Suu Kyi, whose sole purpose is to give legitimacy to a government run by murderers while she masquerades as a “democracy icon”? I don’t think so.
Eric Bahrt
