The ferocious secret wars of the Lady of Peace

From the silence on the Buddhist massacres to the purges of dissidents. Aung San Suu Kyi is in power showing an unexpected iron fist.

Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi

The Burmese generals have definitely lost and the international “heroine” Aung San Suu Kyi is the undisputed winner of the elections in Myanmar.

The international Left-wing is peeling own hands for too applauses, but are we really sure that the “hard and pure” democracy has won? Those who know the former Burma knows that San Suu Kyi, from an icon of freedom, has become authoritarian according to the same revolutionaries who for years have supported her. The Dalai Lama has recalled her for the hard, heavy silence on the massacre of ethnic and religious minorities. Her recent trip to China has raised strong criticism since she has not spent a word for a Nobel Prize languishing in the jails of Beijing.

In the free elections of Sunday 7/11 the Burmese have changed page. In Myanmar has triumphed the National League for Democracy (NLD) winning 35 on 36 seats in the parliament and probably more than 70% of the votes. The “Lady”, as San Suu Kyi is often called, already won in 1991, but the generals overturned the results keeping her on house arrest for 15 years. Too bad, though, that in recent times the “icon of freedom” is showing her true face, more similar to a clever eastern Evita Peron than to the frail figure of “Democratic heroin” acclaimed by the whole world.

Min-aung-Hlaing

Strange that the champions of human rights are not aware that a few months ago the Dalai Lama has condemned the silence of Aung San Suu Kyi on the massacre of ethnic and religious minorities. Not only that: before the elections the burmese “Lady” has purged all Muslims from her electoral lists with the approval of the ultra-nationalists. The burmese “Lady” has also purged many of her fellow travelers of the early days, the so called “88s generation”, because they were insufficiently obedient.

Min Zin, a USA expert on Burmese affairs, spoke clearly of a drift towards “an authoritarian leadership style.” In June, when Aung San Suu Kyi was for the first time on a visit to China, which for years has supported the burmese Generals, it drew harsh criticism from human rights organizations, which had once supported her. She, Nobel Prize for peace, has not uttered a word about a colleague who got the same prize for Literature, Liu Xiaobo, but has the misfortune to serve a sentence of 11 years for subversion in Chinese prisons.

China's President Xi shakes hands with Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during meeting at Great Hall of People in Beijing

Since 2013, the party of the “heroine” has accepted funding from American lobbies and other environments linked to sordid practices (which it’s better not to mention without direct sources). The first cracks with the true democrats of his party began when she accepted the alliance with Thura Shwe Mann, a former general. Myo Khin, a former comrade of struggles of the “Lady”, has no doubts: “The aim could be also democracy, but the way she has chosen to reach it is authoritarian.”

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets Italian PM Letta