Having endured nearly 15 years of house arrest with grace and courage, Aung San Suu Kyi has earned a reputation throughout the world as a political superstar of rare moral stature.
But for some, mostly from outside the country but also from within, the aura surrounding Myanmar's most famous daughter has dimmed in recent years.
"I think everyone agrees now she has been a disappointment when it comes to human rights promotion," said David Mathieson, Human Rights Watch's senior researcher on Myanmar.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner's glittering international reputation means that visiting dignitaries still clamor for a meeting since she emerged from detention in 2010 and set about pressing her case to become the next president of post-reform Myanmar. "Everyone that arrives in Rangoon (Yangon) expects to get a photo op," said Mathieson. "They all want that Suu Kyi photo on the mantelpiece."
But for some observers of Myanmar's emergence from nearly half a century of authoritarian military rule, the 68-year-old's perceived failure to speak out against rising violence towards the mainly Buddhist country's Muslim Rohingya minority is grounds for criticism.
HRW executive director Kenneth Roth was withering in a recent report: "The world was apparently mistaken to assume that as a revered victim of rights abuse she would also be a principled defender of rights."
Aung Zaw, editor of Myanmar news magazine The Irrawaddy, said that while she remained popular among Burmese, Suu Kyi had eroded some of her domestic support in recent years.Her failure to speak out on ethnic issues and the communal violence that had wracked the country was "shocking," he said, and had been met with disappointment in quarters of the country's ethnic communities.
"People expected her -- as she is a Nobel Peace Prize winner -- to say a few words to stop the bloodshed," he said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/15/world/asia/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-rohingya-disappointment/
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WHO-Aung San Suu Kyi
WHEN-not given
WHAT-the aura surrounding Myanmar's most famous daughter has dimmed in recent years
WHY-The Nobel Peace Prize winner's glittering international reputation means that visiting dignitaries still clamor for a meeting since she emerged from detention in 2010 and set about pressing her case to become the next president of post-reform Myanmar
WHERE-Myanmar
HOW-not given
Keywords：
1.endure：忍耐
2.aura：氣氛
3.dignitaries：顯要人物
4.authoritarian：獨裁主義者
5.eroded：侵蝕
6.bloodshed：殺戮
I think Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy opposition leader, is a very brave, wise, and considerate person. She sacrificed almost her whole life to call for the Burmese rights. I don't think there is someone willing to do something like this. Without her contributions to Myanmar, its common people can't break away the dictatorship. I think she is really the person who I should pay my respect to her.
回覆刪除Today, a woman leader is rare in our lives. Aung San Suu Kyi, a woman who fight with the rights for her lifelong span. I think she is the person I admire, she stands for people's rights so as to give them better lives. She is the bravest woman I never seen, she keeps fighting when she is in adversity. That's why I really look up to her.
回覆刪除Aung San Suu Kyi,a brave woman to fight the rights.She wanted to make a better life for her people.She almost dedicated her whole life to get the Burmese rights. I think if Taiwan has a good leader as Aung San Suu Kyi .We will be much better.
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回覆刪除A brave woman leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, fights for the rights just want to give Myanmar citizens a better lives. She sacrifices her whole life to struggle her ideal even though she can not accompany her husband and children for several years. It is very worthy to respect Aung San Suu Kyi for all her done.
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