Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Saturday she sees no reason for sanctions by Western nations against Burma [also called Myanmar] to be lifted.
“At the present situation, I don’t see any reason to lift the sanctions,” the 65-year old Nobel laureate told Reuters.
Suu Kyi’s comments come just days after Burma’s new government was sworn in.
The new Burmese government, the result of the first elections after two decades, has few new faces.
The generals who have been in control of the country have kept their powerful positions. The elections held last year have been widely condemned as being a fraud.
Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy won the last elections in 1990, but she has never been allowed to rule, instead she has been put under house arrest for most of the past two decades.
Burmese state-controlled media took aim at Suu Kyi on Sunday saying she and her party were “going the wrong way,” and would “meet their tragic end,” if they continued to endorse foreign sanctions, the reported BBC.
“At the present situation, I don’t see any reason to lift the sanctions,” the 65-year old Nobel laureate told Reuters.
Suu Kyi’s comments come just days after Burma’s new government was sworn in.
The new Burmese government, the result of the first elections after two decades, has few new faces.
The generals who have been in control of the country have kept their powerful positions. The elections held last year have been widely condemned as being a fraud.
Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy won the last elections in 1990, but she has never been allowed to rule, instead she has been put under house arrest for most of the past two decades.
Burmese state-controlled media took aim at Suu Kyi on Sunday saying she and her party were “going the wrong way,” and would “meet their tragic end,” if they continued to endorse foreign sanctions, the reported BBC.
