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The committee that awarded the Nobel peace prize to Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991 described her as “an important symbol in the struggle against oppression” and an inspiration to those “striving to attain democracy, human rights and ethnic conciliation by peaceful means”. But to the crowd of protesters who gathered outside the International Court of Justice (icj) in The Hague this week, she is just the opposite: an apologist for military brutality, an oppressor of ethnic minorities and an abettor of genocide. “Aung San Suu Kyi, shame on you!” they chanted. As her motorcade glided past, windows tinted, the jeers and boos rose in a crescendo.

https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/12/12/aung-san-suu-kyi-has-gone-from-hero-to-villain?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/2019/12/12n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/NA/360197/n