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September 6, 2011

Asia
What Is Suu Kyi’s Role in Burma Today?

Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters after meeting Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar, at Suu Kyi's home in Yangon August 24, 2011 (Soe Zeya Tun/ Courtesy Reuters). As…

Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters after meeting Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar, at Suu Kyi’s home in Yangon August 24, 2011.

September 24, 2012

India
Suu Kyi’s U.S. Visit: Overshadowing the Real Powers in Myanmar

Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s two-week visit to the United States has thus far proven highly successful, at least on the terms understood in advance. As she did in Europe, Suu Kyi has wowed aud…

U.S. president Obama speaks with Myanmar opposition leader Suu Kyi during their meeting in the White House.

December 26, 2013

Human Rights
Suu Kyi Faces Growing Criticism

Just a short blog item to think about over your holiday season; Asia Unbound will be back in force in the new year. Over the past two years, as Buddhist-Muslim violence in Myanmar has spread from we…

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi looks on as she leads a news conference at the foreign ministry in Rome on October 28, 2013. (Max Rossi/Courtesy Reuters)

June 7, 2011

Myanmar
Suu Kyi Steps up the Pressure

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at a ceremony to welcome and acknowledge released political prisoners at the National League for Democracy (NLD) head office in Yangon May 27, 2…

Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at a ceremony to welcome and acknowledge released political prisoners at the National League for Democracy (NLD) head office in Yangon May 27, 2011.

October 28, 2012

Asia
Myanmar’s Ethnic Violence: Where Is Suu Kyi?

Over the past week, violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine State, in the western part of Myanmar, has flared up badly once again. According to reports in local media and the news wires, ov…

People collect pieces of metal from the rubble of a neighborhood in Pauktaw township in Rakhine State, Myanmar that was burned in recent violence October 27, 2012.