Sunday, October 25, 2009

Comment I left on Irrawaddy site re. UK Ambassador allowed to visit Daw Suu to brief her about sanctions --


Fallout -- a collage- copyright Kyi May Kaung

This is all very good & allows Daw Suu a regular? limited view/contact with the outside world.

But Ambassadors are not the Internet, professors/researchers or libraries and how much could he brief her in a few hours? How long was he allowed to see her?

Daw Suu must be allowed to surf the web on her own and do her own research, and should be allowed to meet economists and others from inside and outside Burma in regular "master classes." The economic sections of the western embassies would be a good start.

She should certainly be released soon and allowed both intellectual and physical freedom.

Otherwise it is only the junta trying to show it's flexible, not real flexibility or openess and not real dialog. But please spare her from serving tea to the junta apologists!

Everyone knows who those are. These deserve a teacup flung at them, and are useless intellectually also.

Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)

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