As the great man Jonah Fisher tweeted on Thursday: "Seems like today was the day many woke up to the fact
that Aung San Suu Kyi is now a pragmatic ambitious politician and no
saint."
In truth, she has always been overrated. And, like many Asian
nationalists against European colonial powers, her father fought for
Japan when Ralph Miliband was fighting for Britain.
But she did make the
most hilariously middlebrow appearance on Desert Island Discs.
A rare balanced treatment of Buddhism and violence was broadcast in August.
The subject is addressed in great detail here.
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