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Originally Posted by pyatnitski
Yes, I agree, "hands are tied" was too strong a metaphor. I was trying to say that the problems go way deeper than just what Kyi decides, and that it could even be the case that she was somewhat powerless to do anything meaningful about it. However she probably has immense personal responsibility (and absolutely has some), and it's fact that a government in her name has stoked tensions to the point of genocide, so f*** her. It just triggers me a little bit when such a horrendous and complex issue is reported on a lot of the time solely through the prism of "maybe we should take our trophy back!" (Not what you posted, just generally).
nah it's all good, i think you're making a good point re: the power dynamics that are entrenched within the government and ASSK's limited role in calling shots, so to speak.
the whole situation is just sad and ****ty because you have a lower class that is being marginalized and exercising their frustration in violent ways, and then you have a privileged class that is responding by violently beating them back some more. at some point it just devolves into a destructive game of tit for tat whose only clear end is the full ethnic cleansing of the marginalized class.
meanwhile you've got former political prisoner ASSK who talks a big game re: economic and political reforms, which in theory could help the marginalized underclass, but fails to deliver any meaningful progress and watches silently as the cycle of violence and despair spirals out of control at the hands of her military. she has famously written about the corrupting influence of fear and power, and now herself is an embodiment of it.
literally nobody is going to do anything about it and all these people will flee or be killed for basically no good reason.