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    HALL OF INFAMY

    Jun 18, 2020 3 minutes

    AUNG SAN SUU KYI

    JOB: State Counsellor of Myanmar

    REPUTATION: Human rights champion turned genocide apologist

    How could it happen? For decades Suu Kyi led a mostly nonviolent struggle against a vicious military dictatorship in Myanmar. She endured 15 long years of house arrest, violent attacks and the ruthless suppression of her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). Suu Kyi and the NLD won a landslide in 1988 (overturned by the (Mother Suu) or simply ‘the Lady’.

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