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September 19, 2012

Suu Kyi Calls for Easing of Burma Sanctions During U.S. Visit 
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The Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in the midst of her
first visit to the United STates in more than three decades. After
spending 15 years under house arrest, Suu Kyi was recently elected to
parliament and allowed to travel abroad as part of the ruling Burmese
junta’s efforts to ease its global isolation. Speaking in Washington,
Suu Kyi called for an easing of sanctions on Burma.

Aung San Suu Kyi: "In the last years of military rule, United States
sanctions were blamed for all the economic ills of Burma, not just the
economic ills, but other ills as well and there is greater eagerness for
these sanctions to be removed. On my part, I do not think that we need
to cling on to sanctions unnecessarily because I want our people to be
responsible their own destiny."

 

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