Father Anthony, a Jesuit priest in Madurai (Tamil Nadu), was born and lived for ten years in the former Burma.In his opinion the arrest is designed to reinforce the idea that the military junta has an absolute power over the population, that it can use the iron fist, that people can be arrested arbitrarily, jailed and tortured. In Myanmar he said there is no “freedom of movement and torture of dissidents and political opponents is commonplace.”
The Jesuits priest said he was afraid that “Aung San Suu Kyi will never be released” until “she is dead or world powers exert such pressure on the junta that they have to free her.”
Members of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, released an official statement on Aung San Suu Kyi’s arrest.
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Photo is of Aung San Suu Kyi speaking in public in Burma
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