Aaron Connelly
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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So why do you think it is that they won't release her?
Well, after the coup in 2021, there was this nationwide uprising, armed resistance to military rule.
But it's possible that the military is even more afraid of nonviolent resistance, of the sort of movement that Aung San Suu Kyi led since 1990.
The thinking there that some analysts advocate is that the military, they're actually relatively comfortable with a
a high level of violence in the country.
But what they're really afraid of is this kind of talismanic power that Aung San Suu Kyi seems to have over Burmese people.
And they still take great risks, even under military rule, to show their fealty to her.
Just last month on her 81st birthday, one member of her party was jailed for offering alms to Buddhist monks in her name.
And Min Aung Hlaing, who overthrew her in that coup in 2021, just really, really hates her.
They were rivals for power during that period from 2015 to 2020 when he was leader of the army and she was in that prime ministerial role.
And he seems to resent the fact that people are still interested in her welfare when, as he sees it, he's now in charge of Myanmar.
One outcome is very clear.
It would absolutely melt resistance at the United Nations and within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to normalizing relations with the junta.
But on the domestic level, it's a little bit less clear what a reappearance of Aung San Suu Kyi would do.
There's been this armed uprising in the country since the 2021 coup d'etat, but Aung San Suu Kyi has always been a supporter of nonviolence.
And there's real concern amongst those who are engaged in the armed struggle against the junta that she would come out against violence once again, and that that would fracture this patchwork coalition relationship.
against military rule between ethnic minority armed groups who've never been that in love with her and the Burman revolutionaries in the country who still look to her for leadership.
Well, I think there's a real risk here that the focus on Aung San Suu Kyi's plight eclipses that of Myanmar's 55 million people who have suffered greatly under military rule.
There's still a war raging in the rest of the country.
Tens of thousands have been killed.
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