Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burma's titular (nominal) leader Aung San Suu Kyi takes heat for ignoring the nominally Buddhist Burmese Army-led ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya people of Burma. [The government says the Rohingya are not Burmese but Bangladeshis in the country illegally. It adds that because they are behaving like "terrorists," it is only "clearing" them out when it is in fact conducting a textbook genocide.] Watch full episodes of The Daily Show (free). It airs weeknights at 11/10 Central Time on Comedy Central.
The end of our heroine Suu Kyi?
The fairy Suu Kyi and dragon Than Shwe
Would that it were only a joke, only some friendly ribbing from the Daily Show, but no. The Lady, Aung San Suu Kyi, i sliving up to her Nobel Peace Prize about as well as warmonger Pres. B. Obama. This short summary video is dubbed "Violent Buddhists Target Muslims in Myanmar: The Daily Show."
I don't want to talk about it!
Burma, called Myanmar by the military dictators who still run it from behind the scenes in their new capital of Naypyidaw.
They've abandoned Rangoon (Yangon) and The Lady, now a member of Parliament and the FACE of the country, but NOT its official leader, not by a long shot. B. Obama and former Secretary of State promised to prop up pro-Democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi, who for so long languished under house arrest.
The Myanmar Daily Show with Noah Trevor (Nov. 13, 2015) In a special 2015 Burmese edition of The Daily Show, Trevor examines Myanmar's election of pro-democracy Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament [as FM not president nor prime minister].
But, Barry, do you think they'll take away our Nobel Peace Prizes? - Nah, not mine. - But you killed people and made wars and signed the Indefinite Detention Act, and stood quiet as... - Yeah, but I got my prize as a payoff before I did anything peaceful. You were actually a hero who's doing nothing now in the face of genocide. Talk to Hillary when she's president (AP).
But Pres. Trump is no source of support, so the military junta, led by Burma's real strong arm leader, a man who is worse than Trump, General Than "Asian Hitler" Shwe.
Suu Kyi's hands are tied. And presumably she has to watch what she says for fear of angering the real movers and shakers who pull her strings, the military junta living royally in Naypyidaw.
She can do little to stop the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Burma's most oppressed ethnic minority, the reviled Muslim Rohingya people of coastal Rakhine State next to formerly Buddhist now Muslim Bangladesh.
But she could be brave enough to speak up for them. Worse than silence she is making excuses, blaming the victims, and purposely turning a deaf ear to their suffering and the cries of the world for her to step up and live up to her Nobel Peace Prize.
We live as kings on embezzled billions while Burma suffers as a Third World country.
The world would prefer silence to statements like, "They are burning their own houses and villages to make the government look bad."
She too closely followed in the footsteps of grand American liar Hillary Clinton, war criminal, failed candidate, personal student of genocidal mentor, war criminal, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
I've got my own problems, Suu Kyi. - H.C.
Hillary Clinton was a right winger until she met husband and notorious liar, husband former Pres. Bill Clinton. Both are attorneys, and both sold out the Democratic Party to push "moderate" to the right. They are more corporate-capitalists than progressives, regardless of what focus groups tell them to say in public. Oh, Aung San, turn it around!
"It is not power that corrupts, but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it." - Aung San Suu Kyi
Oh, Dark Lord, General Than Shwe, am I ready to come to the Dark Side? - Not yet.
Barry, I want to be just like her, like Hillary. - Be careful what you wish for, Suu Kyi!
Burma's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi visits China as the two countries pledge to forge closer ties as "blood brothers" following the Burmese leader's visit to Beijing, her first diplomatic trip since taking power in March (Li Yibo/Xinhua via AP).
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China, Burma vow closer ties as Suu Kyi visits Beijing
BEIJING - China and Burma (renamed "Myanmar" by the military dictatorship) said Saturday that they have pledged to forge closer ties as "blood brothers," as Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi got set to wrap up a visit to Beijing, her first diplomatic trip since taking power in March.
At the Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Emperor Qin Shihuang in Xi'an in northwestern China's Shaanxi Province, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.
) The neighboring countries also said in a joint statement that they would strengthen trade and cooperation on issues along the border, where fighting between Burmese government forces and rebels have occasionally spilled over.
There was no mention of progress, however, on a stalled $3.6 billion dam project in northern Burma primarily funded by Chinese energy interests, which was a key concern during the visit.
China has been on a diplomatic charm offensive in the past year toward its fast-growing neighbor, while Burma under Suu Kyi has shown a willingness to embrace its top trading partner and major investor.
The five-day visit, concluding Sunday, is the second trip to China within 15 months for Suu Kyi, who was imprisoned for more than a decade by Burma's former Beijing-backed military junta.
Suu Kyi has indicated that she will seek more balanced relations with China and the United States compared to Burma's previous government, headed by President Thein Sein, who initiated political reforms and built ties with Washington.
Nobel Peace Laureate, democracy icon, Burmese leader: the Lady Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Htin Kyaw, left, newly elected president of Burma, walks with National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, at Burma's parliament in Naypyitaw (the dictatorship's capital) March 15, 2016. Parliament elected Htin Kyaw Tuesday, a watershed moment that ushers the longtime opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi into government.
NAYPYITAW, Burma - Burma's parliament elected Htin Kyaw as the country's new president Tuesday in a watershed moment that ushers the longtime opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi into government after 54 years of direct or indirect military rule.
(March 14, 2016) The joint session of the two houses of parliament broke into thundering applause as the speaker Mann Win Khaing Than announced the result:
"I hereby announce the president of Myanmar is Htin Kyaw, as he won the majority of votes." Immediately, the state-run Myanmar TV's camera zoomed in from above on a beaming [The Lady Daw Aung San] Suu Kyi, sitting in the front row, clapping excitedly, for a live nationwide audience.
Theravada Buddhist monks hold up Burmese and American flags (telegraph.co.uk).
The 70-year-old Htin Kyaw, a longtime confidant of Suu Kyi, will take office April 1 but questions remain about his position and power. Rightfully, the job belonged to Suu Kyi, who has been the face of the pro-democracy movement and who endured decades of house arrest and harassment by military rulers without ever giving up on her non-violent campaign to unseat them.
But a constitutional provision [instituted by the military dictators] barred Suu Kyi from becoming president, and she made it clear that whoever sits in that chair will be her proxy [so she is now effectively Burma's president as she was once elected to be before the military took over]. More
That's nice, very nice. But we and Gen. Than Shwe still rule behind the scenes (AFP).
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Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burma's titular (nominal) leader Aung San Suu Kyi takes heat for ignoring the nominally Buddhist Burmese Army-led ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya people of Burma. [The government says the Rohingya are not Burmese but Bangladeshis in the country illegally. It adds that because they are behaving like "terrorists," it is only "clearing" them out when it is in fact conducting a textbook genocide.] Watch full episodes of The Daily Show (free). It airs weeknights at 11/10 Central Time on Comedy Central. 
