Aung San Suu Kyi and the Violent Politics of Peace

Two winners of the Nobel Peace Prize will meet this week in Myanmar. One, President Barack Obama, is often criticized for his use of force and violence from Guantanamo Bay to the Middle East. The other, Aung San Suu Kyi, is celebrated as a human rights icon by Western governments — and seldom criticized by them for her tolerance of force and violence in her own country.

Is it because she's a woman? A Buddhist? The West's great hope for true democracy in Myanmar?

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