Aung San Suu Kyi — "investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizin…"
investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward égalité and justice.
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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.
Details
1997 opinion piece in the New York Times, urging sanctions on the Burmese military regime. This quote is controversial due to her later shift in approach to military-linked businesses.