Aung San Suu Kyi : What the ’interviewed by Muslim’ BBC Today programme comment can tell us about her views | The Independent
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L’article sur Aung San Suu Kyi explique la méthode employée également per la chancelière #Merkel pour solidifier sa position.
Suu Kyi has been struggling to attain power in Burma for the past 28 years. She is vastly popular with her fellow countrymen, more than 90 per cent of whom are Buddhists, like her. But her enemies in the military regime have never stopped trying to blacken her name. Their favourite method was to say that she wasn’t properly Burmese because she had been married to an Englishman, had lived in the West for many years and produced two foreign sons. And by depicting her as foreign, they tried to lump her together with the Muslim minority who are also regarded by many Burmese Buddhists as aliens with no right to remain in the country.
My hunch is that Suu Kyi feared that if she spoke up for the Rohingya, it would make it easy for her enemies to repeat this argument – and if the Burmese masses fell for it, that could erode her standing and her chances of coming to power. So she has been sitting uncomfortably on the fence for the past five years.
In such a posture she became a sitting duck for anyone – Muslim journalists to the fore – who wanted to attack her for betraying both her human rights record and her status as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. She became hyper-sensitive on the issue.
Bref : une fois arrivée en position de cheffe il ne faut plus bouger. Il faut agir en tirant les ficelles dans l’obscurité. C’est seulement après avoir éliminé tous ses concurrents qu’il devient possible de prendre ouvertement position par rapport aux questions urgentes.