Gwynne Dyer: Burma’s next president

If Aung San Suu Kyi ran for president, she would surely win.

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by GWYNNE DYER on FEB 11, 2014
AUNG SAN SUU Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion of Burmese democracy, declared last June that she would run for president in the 2015 election. If she ran, she would surely win: she is to Burma what Nelson Mandela was to South Africa. However, as things now stand she is not legally allowed to run for president—and maybe she should see that as an opportunity to reconsider whether becoming president is the best use of her talents.

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