Aungsan Suji, who was cold 8 years ago… I got up for human rights and I was driven to human rights.

#A lecture hall at Seoul National University on February 1, 2013. Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the opposition party in Myanmar at the time, responded to questions after receiving an honorary doctorate. One participant raised his hand and asked for opinions on the suppression of the Myanmar ethnic minorities. He only replied, “You have to be formally involved in resolving the conflict, but that’s not the case now.” He, a democratic fighter and a human rights activist, shunned the audience, hoping that there should be no oppression of ethnic minorities.

2019, after Suji took power in 2015. The Rohingya tribe, a minority who believes in Islam, has emerged as a concern of the international community due to the oppression of the Myanmar government. The attitude he showed in 2013 was a trailer for the Rohingya outbreak in 2019. The Rohingya crisis was a decisive opportunity to overturn its reputation in the international community. The voice that the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded for contributing to the democratization of Myanmar by enduring the 15-year house arrest pension, should be canceled was strengthened. The Gwangju Human Rights Award, which he received while visiting Korea in 2013, was actually canceled. He did not care, however. Islamic states brought the Myanmar government to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the suppression of the Rohingya, and even offered to defend the Myanba government directly.

At the end of last month, Susie was again imprisoned by the military. It was in the course of a coup by the Myanmar military. After this, it is analyzed that Suji was unable to establish a support base in Korea, so he lived dangerously with the military, and for that reason, he initiated this coup by itself. The New York Times (NYT) described on the 1st (local time), “If you look at Aung San Suu Kyi’s actions after taking office, he is neither a fighter for democracy nor a victim of the military.” did. Like Faust, who obtained what he wanted by selling his soul to the devil, it is a critical mention that Suzy also took power with the military. International politician Ian Bremer, the head of the Eurasian Group, also revealed on the 2nd day on YouTube, “Mrs. Suji’s government was unstable from the beginning.” Pointed out.

After Suji took office, she chose the former between domestic political power and international image. Advocating for the Myanmar government on the Rohingya issue is closely related to the election landscape. The Democratic Peoples League (NDL), led by him, won the November 2015 election, but won six seats, less than half of the 13 seats in the 2018 by-election. Ahead of the elections the following year, it can be interpreted that Suzy decided to capture the Buddhist public sentiment, who feels opposition to the Muslim Rohingya. In Myanmar, more than 88% of the people believe in Buddhism. His calculations hit, and the NDL wins in the 2020 elections. But still, a quarter of the parliamentary seats were left to the military.

Suzy’s desire for power also rose to the cutting board. He married an Englishman and had two sons, and the military legislated that “a person who marries a foreigner cannot become president” to prevent him from taking office. Because of this, he couldn’t become president even after the NDL’s overwhelming victory, and he chose the post of foreign affairs minister. Since then, he made the president a puppet and appeared directly on behalf of the president at various international events as head of state.

NYT said, “Everyone expected that if he came to power, he would achieve balance with the military,” said NYT. “However, he failed to accomplish the mission, and this confinement was attributable to his incompetence.” The British Financial Times (FT), which has given a relatively generous evaluation of Suzy, said on the 1st, “The military coup in Myanmar shows how difficult democracy is to protect.”

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