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Has Aung San Suu Kyi become a puppet of Burma’s generals?

Having regained her freedom, the Nobel peace prize-winner seems to have lost interest in human rights, according to Peter Popham

9 April 2016

9:00 AM

9 April 2016

9:00 AM

The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s Struggle for Freedom Peter Popham

Rider Books, pp.440, £20, ISBN: 9781846043710

Peter Popham is commendably quick off the blocks with this excellent account of the run-up to last November’s Burmese general election, in which Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy swept the board. At the time of writing this review, Suu is taking four ministries, including foreign affairs. So she will do what she did during her years of house arrest — offer a beautiful human face to the outside world of a country still under the heel of the generals.

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