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Monday, August 17, 2009

Aung San Suu Kyi left to pay the price for John Yettaw’s indiscretion

Aung San Suu Kyi left to pay the price for John Yettaw’s indiscretion

Richard Lloyd Parry: Analysis August 17, 2009

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6798369.ece

First it was Bill Clinton in North Korea, escorting home two scared US journalists from the clutches of Kim Jong Il. Now, Senator Jim Webb returns from Burma with the hapless American eccentric, John Yettaw.

For a politician, there are few more glorious moments than jetting home from a despotic regime with imprisoned compatriots in tow. But the liberation of Mr Yettaw was the least important and interesting achievement of Mr Webb’s trip.

Whether you regard Mr Yettaw as a well-meaning buffoon or an arrogant busybody, he hardly deserved such a prompt and high-level intervention.
The ironies of his release this weekend are painful. In setting him free, the Burmese junta manages to project an image of magnanimity for cancelling a sentence out of all proportion to Mr Yettaw’s “crimes”. And, as he flies back to obscurity in Missouri, Aung San Suu Kyi and her two female companions are left to pay the price of his fecklessness.

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For encouraging such a conversation, Senator Webb deserves credit.

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Richard Lloyd Parry: Analysis August 17, 2009

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6798369.ece

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