WHYS on TV: The release of Aung San Suu Kyi

She is poetry in motion. Perhaps the world could give her a moment to breathe before her symbolic importance to the movement overwhelms her once more. Yes, she is a leader, but she is also a mother. She has not been able to embrace her son in a decade and now she can catch up with the personal as well as political freedoms she has missed. The military is still in power, but let us hope for the best.

RE: 1. At 6:56pm on 14 Nov 2010, nora

What a wonderful comment! Poetry in itself! Especially the part about being a mother who has not been able to embrace her son for a decade.

IF your comment had not been there I would have written a scathing and vitriolic comment against the military junta and the Chinese CCP with whose auspices the junta survives! Bless you and Aung San Suu Kyi too!

Aung San Suu Kyi was incarcerated by a tinpot regime that was allowed to thumb their noses at all the big time governments and the UN. So what is the true story of her incarceration is their a reporter that can get to the bottom of it. All western government representatives have done have issued platitudes like a dodo with a hair lip never achieved anything in getting an early release . I have a suspicion that some western governments were happy to see her locked up ( and wished they could do the same with their own opposition leaders) and were just as happy to be dealing with a Military Junta.More money in Guns than Roses.

I do not think anyone was at all genuine in getting her out , why . Because if the USA and UN cannot deal with this mickey mouse regime then who can they deal with. So either they are completely hopeless and useless or are complicit in the this jailings. On past performance the Americans were more likely to invade a Aung San Suu Kyi governed Burma than support it.

Aung San Sui Kyi's release was past overdue and hopefully she will play an important part in the future of Burma and its peoples. Its quite possible China may have pressured the Burmese Military to have her released. But after looking at the BBC's world newsand seeing the number of security men not far from her, they are obviously monitoring her whereabouts and what she says. It is hard to accept the Military Dictatorship of Burma is just going to lie down, there is a huge risk to her person and well being, hopefully she will remain free and be able to live a normal life. We still have to hear and see the reaction of the Military Leadership.