Challenges for Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Lady of Myanmar now needs to change gears from being just a symbol and a lone fighter to widening her support base through educating the young and those at the grassroots level on democracy.

JAKARTA: The pressure on Aung San Suu Kyi as the sole symbol of the Myanmar democratic movement showed itself last December when, at a news conference, she was reported to have said: “Please don’t forget that I started out as the leader of a political party. I cannot think of anything more political than that.”