Reuters today published a photo of Ibrahim Gambari shaking hands with Aung San Suu Kyi when he was in Myanmar for talks. He has since left and should be on the way back to the UN via Singapore.
This is the first photo of her in years. Gosh... She has aged so much. And yes, she, like the rest of the civilians and monks of Myanmar, has also suffered much.
I don't know if Gambari's visit will help much. This is a regime that is so insular that it is never bothered with what the world thinks.
I guess the only way things are going to change is (1) a new leader in the likes of Mikhail Gorbachev or FW de Klerk comes into power and start to dismantle the system, or (2) the US makes their sanctions even tougher and penalise countries and foreign companies that does business with Myanmar by imposing the same type of punitive embargoes on them, or (3) the common soldiers have enough of killing their own people and turn against the junta.
If not, things will just remain the same and go into a cycle. Uprising, brutal crackdown, repressed silence and repeat a decade or so later.
Meanwhile, Nyan Win, the junta's foreign minister (Comical Ali of Myanmar) in a typical show of delusion has accused "neo-colonialism", "political opportunist" and "powerful countries" for stirring up trouble. It's definitely not the language of people tuned into the reality of their own country and given to reason. How in the world do you negotiate and reason with such deluded thugs?
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