EP43: Aung San Suu Kyi

The Hated and the Dead - A podcast by Tom Leeman

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Aung San Suu Kyi became one of the most recognisable people in the world in the 1990s and 2000s during long periods under house arrest in her native Myanmar. Released in 2010, her image as an icon of democracy, resilience and human rights has been tainted by her apparent ambivalence towards the military-sponsored ethnic cleansing (some say genocide) of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority. My guest today is Dr Ronan Lee (@Ronan_Lee), research fellow at the Institute for Media and Creative Indus...