No songs for fallen Suu Kyi
IT’S chalk and cheese in just 10 years. Back then Aung San Suu Kyi could do no wrong as the pro-democracy Myanmar/ Burmese opposition leader to a cruel military dictatorship.
She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, Amnesty’s Ambassador of Conscience in 2009 and then Bono even sang her praises.
In June 2012 she was in Dublin where then-foreign minister Eamon Gilmore told her and the world that she was ‘enormously admired’ in this country.
Since that time, she returned as the elected leader of a frail democracy in Myanmar. However, she disgraced herself and forever ruined her reputation by defending the Myanmar military’s genocidal attacks on the Rohingya Muslim minority in 2019. With her standing in tatters, the guns came out again and the army removed her from office, and put her under arrest. This week they gave her five more years in jail.
And nobody cares. No songs were written or sang here. Those who believe in heroes have already moved on to their next false god.