Suu Kyi
Britishnoun
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But he suggested it could be a stepping stone towards reform, saying that general Thein Sein was elected president in an "imperfect" poll in 2010 and went on to release Aung San Suu Kyi, with the NLD winning the next poll.
From Barron's
A career diplomat and former ambassador to France, Sihasak urged the Myanmar authorities to free 80-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi on humanitarian grounds.
From Barron's
He served as an economic policy adviser to State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar and was a political prisoner there, 2021-22.
Suu Kyi's vastly popular National League for Democracy -- which won 82 percent of elected seats in the last poll in 2020 -- will not be among them, because the junta dissolved the party after jailing her and making unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud.
From Barron's
This plan has been widely condemned because it excludes Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, which won the last election but its government was ousted in the coup, and because so much of Myanmar is in a state of civil war.
From BBC
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