Aung San Suu Kyi — "Quite frankly, as many people know, there are political prisoners and that shows…"
Quite frankly, as many people know, there are political prisoners and that shows [the country] does not have a free and fair judicial system.
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About Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945)
Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace laureate (1991) who spent 15 years under house arrest before her party's 2015 election win. Closely associated with Václav Havel (Czech dissident-turned-president) and Nelson Mandela (the moral-leader template she was often compared to). For an intellectual contrast, see Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar military commander-in-chief — deposed Suu Kyi in the 2021 coup and continues to detain her — the institutional military power her movement spent decades resisting.
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Press conference one year after her release from house arrest, criticizing the judicial system. This quote is controversial in retrospect given her government's later jailing of journalists and critics.
Date: 2011
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