The Old Aung San Suu Kyi

If the "new" Aung San Suu Kyi won't say it, maybe Myanmar will listen to the "old" Aung San Suu Kyi. Direct quotes the nation & the world need her to say again.

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

"I don't think people will thirst for vengeance once they have been given access to the truth. But the fact that they are denied access to the truth simply stokes the anger and hatred in them." Voice of Hope '97. #officialsecretsact #noaccesstoIIFFM #restrictedmediaaccess

[Aung Naing Soe @AungNaingSoeAns]

"We can't restrict the freedom by the reason of security. We can't ignore the security by the reason of freedom. These two should be in balance."

ASSK said this when two journalists from Unity were arrested in 2014.

Source: Lynn Sach Aong

@TheOldASSK

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

"The system without a government is anarchy. The system without law is governed by the law of nature. Which one is worse? I asked a young man once. He said lawlessness under a government is far worse than anarchy." from Hans-Bernd Zollner's The Beast & The Beauty. p146.

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

@Reaproy @Journotopia Old ASSK, 31.03.96
"The Western symbol of justice is blindfolded Lady Justice holding scales in one hand & a sword in the other hand. The blindfold represents objectivity and impartiality of blind justice. The balanced scales symbolise fairness...1/

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

"If we go on irresponsibly like this, the suffering in our country will aggravate. The country without rule of law is worse than the country without king or government.../5

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

Because of the very nature of authoritarian governments & dictatorships, they effectively prevent themselves from learning the truth...They only see what they want to see...So you end up not seeing, hearing or saying the truth. https://t.co/W9dQ7TIW3g

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

"Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want." #FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

The unhappy legacies of authoritarianism can be removed only if the concept of absolute power as the basis of government is replaced by ...mutual confidence betw the people & their leaders &, most important of all, confidence in the principles of justice, liberty & human rights.

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

Revisionist #DoubleNegative: The best way to NOT help Burma is NOT to empower the people of Burma, NOT to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

https://t.co/L7u321cn01 https://t.co/cmldi9ErPj

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

"As I understand it, a kangaroo court is so called because it is a burlesque
performance where the process of the law takes heart-stopping leaps &
bounds...It is no surprise then that the erratic course of justice in a kangaroo court is outside the bounds of normal human conduct"

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

"Everybody committed...to return the country to democracy has to be prepared to go to prison at any time. It usually happens in the middle of the night, appropriately, as there can be fewer deeds more akin to darkness than...depriving innocent people of a normal, healthy life."

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

"As I understand it, a kangaroo court is so called because it is a burlesque
performance where the process of the law takes heart-stopping leaps &
bounds...It is no surprise then that the erratic course of justice in a kangaroo court is outside the bounds of normal human conduct"

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

"You must start by refusing to say something is good if it not good; or saying something is just if it is not just...Then gradually go on to say that this is unjust; this is bad. And then you go on to follow up your words with appropriate action." https://t.co/pfs76EmB9T

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

"Human beings want to be free & however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing..." https://t.co/Z2OWwXe8O8

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

“While there are claims of democratic reform [in Burma], this is questionable when the rights of journalists [to report] are being controlled.” #SuuKyi to #NLD rally, 2014.

https://t.co/SJHndIpUs0

#FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo #Journalismisnotacrime https://t.co/Lzd5ViDdU7

[Esther Htusan @estherhtusan11]

When “the rights of journalists (to report) are being controlled,” Suu Kyi said, the very notion of democratic reform in #Myanmar is “questionable.” (she said it under the previous government)
https://t.co/nz2JLfLKc5

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

"The children suffer from a gnawing anxiety that their fathers or mothers might once again be taken away & placed...behind barriers of brick & iron...They know there will be no security for their families as long as freedom of thought...[is] not guarenteed by the law of the land" https://t.co/PB3J5gbvE0

[Matthew Tostevin @TostevinM]

It’s now 10 weeks since Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested. All they had done was to report fairly, accurately and with total professionalism. They should be freed to return to their families. #FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

"Was this the real Daw ASSK – praising army officers who, let us remember, recruited child soldiers, pillaged & raped ethnic minorities & murdered hundreds of civilian protesters in 1988 & 2007? No, it must be an impostor" https://t.co/tguvAlwmgV @BenedictDunant @seanjgleeson

[The Old Aung San Suu Kyi @TheOldASSK]

3. @OfficialSuuKyi in Letters from Burma, 1995, criticising the Junta's arrest, prosecution and sentencing of U "Sauk Yu" Win Htein and other political prisoners.

#plusçachange
#thesoundofsuukyissilence
#freewaloneandkyawsoeoo #Journalismisnotacrime