How is it that in the world that we live in today, there is still political oppression?

Aung San Suu Kyi has (again) been announced to 18 months home arrest following her so-called breach of the internal security of Burma. Though significantly halved from her first sentence, the sentence is still way too harsh. The military government will just find any means and way for them to stay in power. Clearly, Aung San Suu Kyi poses the strongest opposition, that’s why her house arrest will coincidentally prevent her from taking part in the next elections. She’s the perfect person to lead Burma out of what I call turmoil. She studied in Oxford University and her father, Aung San, was Burma’s independence hero way back then. Not only does she has the brains, she has the history in some sense.

I’ve studied about her in history and till today, she’s still under trial. Since her landslide political victory in the 1990 elections, where the military junta refused to regconise her victory, till now, she has been in dentention for 14 out of the last 20 years. I don’t know why I’m angered by the verdict since it was pretty expected but I really hope ‘justice’ will prevail and put her in power of Burma and lead them out of military governance and into democracy, finally, what should have been since 20 years ago.