Our present constitution gives the military far too much power. Although the president is the head of state, he is not necessarily the highest power in the land. The commander-in-chief can take over all powers of government at any time he feels it to be necessary.
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"The people of Myanmar are not against any particular race or religion."
"We have to be careful not to create a new kind of discrimination."
"We're trying to build up a democratic federal union. We have some ways to go before we become a working democratic federal nation such as yours, but I'm sure we'll get there."
"I am committed to national reconciliation."
"I don't have any regrets. I believe in destiny."
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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