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Berättelsen om fredspristagaren som symboliserade kampen för demokrati och sedan anklagades för att ha blundat för folkmord.

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Under sina 15 år i husarrest blev Aung San Suu Kyi en av världens mest kända politiska fångar och tilldelades Nobels fredspris. Hon sågs som utvald, en symbol för demokrati. Men hennes liv har inte varit utan uppoffringar.

År 2010 släpps den burmesiska frihetskämpen fri. Sedan dess har hon och hennes parti NLD vunnit stora valsegrar men också anklagats för att ha blundat för militärens hårda angrepp mot folkgruppen rohingyer. Fördrivningen har kallats för ett folkmord, med hundratusentals människor på flykt.

Idag är situationen i Myanmar allvarlig med civila dödsoffer och stora protester, efter militärkuppen i den 1 februari 2021.

Och Aung San Suu Kyi är ännu en gång frihetsberövad och riskerar många års fängelse.

I programmet medverkar frilansjournalisten Axel Kronholm som länge bevakat Myanmar och journalisten och författaren Jesper Bengtsson som skrivit biografin "En kamp för frihet".

Programledare: Vendela Lundberg 
Avsnittsförfattare & reporter: Sally Henriksson
Producent: Axel Winqvist
Exekutiv Producent: Ulla Svensson
Tekniker: Fredrik Nilsson
Programmet är en produktion från produktionsbolaget OLGA.

Ljudklippen i dokumentären är hämtade från: BBC, Sveriges Radio, SVT, AP, Nobel media, The White House NDTV, CBS och CNN.

In 1982 the Myanmar (Burmese) military government passed a citizenship law that effectively stripped the Rohingya community of their nationality overnight. They’ve been stateless ever since, and subject to institutionalized discrimination and coordinated persecution that has greatly restricted their movement and their access to jobs and education.

In August of 2017 Myanmar’s military began an offensive to drive many Rohingya out of their homes in Rakhine state, with the result that roughly 900,000 refugees have fled the country, with reports of widespread and coordinated attacks utilizing arson, rape, and mass killing that bear signs of genocide. Refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh have long since been filled past overflowing, and many have been reduced to living in squalid and unsafe conditions in and around the camps.

JN Joniad fled his home in Rakhine state 6 years ago, and is currently registered in with UNHCR in Indonesia as a refugee, while he awaits resettlement elsewhere. His story not only illuminates the condition of fellow Rohingya, but also uncovers what appears to be a global trend amongst wealthy nations (the US, EU, and Australia) to outsource their border enforcement policy to developing nations through a strategy of deterrence and obscured accountability.

Not so long ago, Myanmar (Burma) was a good news story, with democratic reforms, a booming economy and falling poverty rates. Then came ugly military-led attacks on Rohingya Muslims, who killed, raped and burned houses, and forced more than 700,000 Rohingyas to flee to camps in Bangladesh, with little pushback from pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. What does this mean for Myanmar's democratic future? Khin Ohmar, an exiled Burmese human rights and democracy activist for 30 years, shares her thoughts.

William Childress (skip to 53:30) had me over to his homestay in Siem Reap, Cambodia to talk about Myanmar. He lived there for years. And it was the first place I went on my travels this year. So I finished seeing a temple near Angkor Wat and went to visit him so we could talk about one of my favorite countries in the world. Myanmar is amazing. See it before it gets ruined by globalism. Also, I went kind of nuts on the intro and outro. And then stay tuned after the outro because I also included a conversation I had with a 17 year old Burmese girl I met out there at a restaurant outside Inle Lake. This might be my fullest podcast ever.

This week, we continue our Badass Bitches series with a more modern icon. We take you to Myanmar, where Suu Kyi fights everyday for democracy.

In this week’s Democracy That Delivers podcast, Murray Hiebert, Senior Adviser and Deputy Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), talks about the historic visit to the U.S. last week of Aung San Suu Kyi. Hiebert discusses what the visit means for Myanmar’s future, including the peace process and the investment climate in a country where peace and development is long overdue. Hiebert also talks about what the lifting of sanctions will mean for the inflow of foreign direct investment, and how economic development and the resolution of ethnic grievances through the peace process are linked. Reaction in Myanmar to Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit is also discussed. Hiebert also talks about the tension between the  Muslim-minority Rohingya population and the majority Buddhist population in Myanmar and Aung San Suu Kyi’s commitment to resolve tension between the two groups.

Undulaten som tycker att förtryckta folkgrupper ska TA DET LITE LUGNT!! Hon har 90% av rösterna men får inte bli president. Hon är ju kvinna. Och har utländska barn.

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Medverkande: Dilan Apak, Petrina Solange, Johannes Finnlaugsson och Elinor Svensson. Producent: Jesper Cederstrand