Burma seemed poised for a historic shift Friday as dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi ended her long boycott of the country’s authoritarian political system and President Obama announced plans to send the U.S. secretary of state there for the first time in half a century.
The back-to-back announcements were the clearest sign yet of how seriously the Obama administration and Suu Kyi — the standard-bearer of Burma’s long-
persecuted democracy movement — are taking the political changes instituted by the country’s leaders.
The back-to-back announcements were the clearest sign yet of how seriously the Obama administration and Suu Kyi — the standard-bearer of Burma’s long-
persecuted democracy movement — are taking the political changes instituted by the country’s leaders.
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