The creation of a new leadership role for ruling party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, which she began exercising this week by pledging to release political prisoners, has blindsided the military and inflamed her fraught ties with Myanmar’s generals.
Members of Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy cheered the new law elevating her to “state counsellor”, signed on Wednesday, as a victory in their first days of leading the government. But many who are aligned with the military characterised the strategy as dangerous for the first civilian-led administration in half a century.
“The scene at parliament was not good, it showed how immature the parliament is,” said Khin Zaw Oo, a former lieutenant general who remains close to the military leadership. “The relationship between the NLD and the military will be impacted … it will not be a good future relationship between the two sides.” (Courtesy of theaustralian.com.au)
Members of Ms Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy cheered the new law elevating her to “state counsellor”, signed on Wednesday, as a victory in their first days of leading the government. But many who are aligned with the military characterised the strategy as dangerous for the first civilian-led administration in half a century.
“The scene at parliament was not good, it showed how immature the parliament is,” said Khin Zaw Oo, a former lieutenant general who remains close to the military leadership. “The relationship between the NLD and the military will be impacted … it will not be a good future relationship between the two sides.” (Courtesy of theaustralian.com.au)
