Jilted Suu Kyi asks India to stand by democracy in Myanmar

Posted by on Nov 14, 2012

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged India on Wednesday to stand by Myanmar on its journey to democracy, on her first trip to Myanmar’s neighbor since it dropped its support for her democracy movement two decades ago in favor of the ruling junta. Suu Kyi spent part of her youth in Delhi and was close to independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru but, after first backing her democracy movement, India began courting the junta as part of a “Look East” policy partly aimed at competing with China. …

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