After the Rohingya crisis, Aung San Suu Kyi will come to the ASEAN summit with her reputation tarnished
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Two years ago, Aung San Suu Kyi led the National League for Democracy (NLD) into government in Myanmar amid a global outpouring of support and goodwill. When she arrives in Australia for this weekend’s ASEAN-Australia Special Summit, the welcome will be cooler, tempered by her government’s limited progress on a range of political and economic issues.
In particular, concerns will be raised over the Myanmar military’s appalling treatment of the Muslim Rohingya, and Suu Kyi’s refusal to denounce it.
For most of her 30-year political career, Suu Kyi was a revered and distant figure. As the world’s most famous political prisoner, she became, as one biographer explained, a “perfect hostage”: the exemplar of a democratic future held captive by a thuggish military regime.
Since her release from house arrest in 2010, Suu Kyi’s story has moved on quickly. In April 2012, her election to Myanmar’s legislature indicated the country was slowly emerging from long-term dictatorship. The peaceful transfer of power to her party in 2015, at the first openly contested democratic election in generations, offered hope that the worst of the country’s troubles were history.
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Simpson, A, After the Rohingya crisis, Aung San Suu Kyi will come to the ASEAN summit with her reputation tarnished, The Conversation, 2018