I entered the East end by Laos, A "appetizer" of the feast that for me would be Myanmar a year later. Traveling in one of the peculiar buses that travel the country in parallel to the melancholic Mekong. After several hours sitting, I managed to overcome the human tide that occupied seats and halls and reach the driver. Beside him, There was a tall and blonde woman. He was a Peruvian photographer who sold his work to a few international agencies. I had been out: He had won a photographic contest convened by Edreams. The prize: All plane tickets that bought over two years. I had just returned from Myanmar. "It is the only place where I would have wanted to stay". And he suggested that he did not stop visiting him.
Upon my return, They published a long series of articles about the country. Some focused on my opinion regarding the Nobel Peace Prize Aung San Suu Kyi; others, In ethnic groups. After five years, Neither has my opinion about her changed nor has the situation of minorities improve.
Myanmar has always had many "suitors". The British empire made her colony but when she left, He left her with it
Myanmar has always had many "suitors". The British empire made her colony but when she left, He left her with it. Of its perversity, to the same George Orwell He recorded, Well there he worked at the service of his funny Majesty. The clashes between ethnicities and cultures intensified, They profited by exploiting soil and people, They left the country in a greater economic chaos than they found when occupied, They burned cities and "enchanted" a police with cruel torture methods.
First, of rice and tea crops they took copious profits; after, of large -scale heroin export, jade, Pearl, Ruby, Sapphires, wood, gas and oil. They are still immense and valuable resources to exploit. Among the old and new predators, the current "pluriministra" has had friends, who, as they, He has defended the boycott for Myanmar and received numerous awards from his countries.
What has alencer to travel on its own is that some fallacies can be discovered
What has alencer to travel on its own is that some fallacies can be discovered: I checked that, general, It was not true that the military government prevented Westerners from installing companies and living there. Although some were expelled because of Western ostracism, others strengthened or increased their presence, Como the British American Tobacco, the total-flip-rep.
After my last sunset in Yangon, I enter a mahabandoola road pub. Its users are western and work for embassies and large companies. The clientele usually comes later, but, In a corner, A white adult who will no longer fulfill the fifty is pressing an oriental girl who does not reach eleven to eat a sandwich. Occasionally, caresses her. She accepts impassive.
What I knew about Aung San Suu Kyi did not predispose me in his favor, So I looked for information that was objective
What I knew about Aung San Suu Kyi did not predispose me in his favor, So I looked for information that was objective, Although the news I found did not improve that perception. His attitude regarding the previous military government was erratic. Although he attacked him on almost every front, In minorities related to minorities. Equally erratic as his father, THE BOGYOKE AUNG SAN, One of the "parents" of Burmese Independence. Who first faced the British colonizers allying to the Japanese empire, To return with the former and abandon the second after the war.
I toured all Myanmar and visited regions where they had minorities. Access was complicated because of the monsoons and the difficulties that authorities and some Burmese inhabitants put me. I couldn't access Aung San Suu Kyi; Not even through his party, la National League of Democracy (NLD). During my stay in Hsipaw I met the book Bo Ko Zaw, Friend of the secretary of the NLD. He gave me a note for him with the aim of interviewing the "lady". It was useless: My last day at Myanmar I went to the number 97 de la West Shwegondine Bahan Township, NLD headquarters in Yangon. It was closed. Nor did they respond to the questionnaires that I sent them about their leader.
I toured all Myanmar but the access was complicated by the Monzones and the difficulties that the authorities and some Burmes put me
At that time it was already free; It is said that it is the one who governs in the shadow. Controls several ministries, But the law forbids being president because her husband had a foreign passport and her children are of British nationality. Although he always denounced the persecution that she and the Burmes had been subject to the Military Board, He never defended what other ethnicities suffered. His answers have not been in this regard that one would expect from a Nobel Peace Prize. Say that they were not genuine Burmes, refer to the need to solve the ethnic problems of Raka without indicating any way or the most absolute silence.
Among the sources consulted, I had the biography that his party sent me. He was born in Yangon in 1945. Her father was killed when she was two years old and marched with her mother to India when she was appointed ambassador. He studied at Oxford Philosophy, Politics and economy and obtained bright ratings. He extended studies in New York and worked there and in some Asian universities. He married Michael Aris, Professor at Oxford and Buddhism expert. Its public appearance dates from 1988, When he returns to Myanmar to take care of his sick mother. It was established in the family home of the Avenida of the University of Yangon.
What few media have told is that he was not the only victim pursued by repression. There were millions of refugees, Forced displaced and prisoners of conscience
While suffering house arrest, He advised foreigners not to visit their country as a protest. Apart from support from Western governments, is that of a known travel guide that recommended its readers not to stay in the comfortable and cheap hotels run by the State. There you go, as, Be careful when following the suggestions of the tourist guides. Politics is one thing and being a user of comfortable and economic hotels, other.
He enjoyed great popularity; Thanks to being the daughter of his father, to the advertising of characters like Tony Blair and the prestigious awards granted to him. What few media have told is that it was not the only victim pursued by repression. There were millions of refugees, Forced displaced and prisoners of conscience. The brave journalist His hla oo He was in jail for more than ten years to criticize the government and contact opposition parties. After winning the elections, Start traveling to denounce the extreme situation in which the Burmese people live and suggest that the boycott continues until democracy is established, that does not seem to include the rights of minorities.
Although he always denounced the persecution that she and the Burmes had been subject to the Military Board, He never defended what other ethnicities suffered
The last sunset went to the lake Abya, north of Yangon, in the middle of a large extent of grass and surrounded by minions and mansions occupied by the country's satrapas and the richest birian families, How Aung San Suu Kyi. Back at the hotel, It started to rain and still continued at dawn, When people had already aroused the streets. While breakfast, I observe the building in front. It reminds me of the Soviet constructions of the Cold War. On a balcony on the third floor, A woman listens to the strident sound of her radius sitting in a rocking chair.
On the way to the airport, I glimpse in the distance the Rico neighborhood, The Licing San Suu Kyi neighborhood.
