Aung San Suu Kyi — "It would not be helpful for the international legal order if the impression take…"
It would not be helpful for the international legal order if the impression takes hold that only resource-rich countries can conduct adequate domestic investigations and prosecutions.
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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.
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Testimony at the International Court of Justice, defending Myanmar's ability to investigate itself.