The armyвЂ™s assault on the Muslim Rohingya minority in the north of Rakhine state in 2017 was provoked by a few attacks on police posts, but it turned into a genocidal bloodbath which drove most Rohingyas who survived it into neighbouring Bangladesh. Then finally, fatally for her reputation, she failed to speak up when the army committed the worst war crime of all. She made no headway with bringing peace to the nationвЂ™s incessantly troubled border lands she connived in the locking up of journalists who were merely doing their business.

Yet she failed to do all but a tiny handful of the reforming things her supporters in the West had hoped she would. For the last two years of her five-year term, she and the head of the army, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing вЂ“ who is now the countryвЂ™s dictator вЂ“ were not on speaking terms. The fairytale came true вЂ“ and almost at once it started to go horribly wrong.ДЄ large part of the problem was that the army still called all the shots and so her government was a very uncomfortable coalition from the outset. Then in 2015 she and her party won a landslide election and she became her countryвЂ™s de facto ruler. Who is Aung San Suu Kyi? Why MyanmarвЂ™s ousted leader is still popular despite being jailed after military coup

She wrote a brilliant, eloquent essay directed at the military rulers of her country entitled вЂњFreedom from FearвЂќ she herself demonstrated amazing courage, time and time again, in standing up to military tyranny, facing down her tormentors, surviving at least two attempts on her life. There is no figure on the international stage whose reputation has undergone such a dizzying reversal as that of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.ДЄnd although the news that at the age of 76 she has been sentenced by a Burmese military court to two years in jail elicits pity вЂ“ with10 more trials yet to come on other trumped-up charges which are likely to see her jailed for the rest of her life вЂ“ it will not unleash the sort of popular campaign to secure her freedom that it would have done 20 years ago.Д«ack then, we had no doubts about this Oxford-educated woman, married to an academic, mother of two sons, who for years was proud to describe herself as a housewife.

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