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"Awww... So close, yet so far." 14 August 2009
- Date
- 2009
- Reference
- DCDL-0012016
- Description
Shows Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy campaigner and leader of the opposition National League for Democracy party (NLD). She is locked inside a glass cage filled with water. On the lock are the words '18 more months'. To the right Prime Minister Than Shwe, grins as he holds the key to the lock and says 'So close, and yet so far...' On the wall is a clock showing that the 'Myanmar election' is to be held soon. Suu Kyi has spent more than 11 of the past 19 years in some form of detention under Burma's military regime and has just been sentenced to 18 months longer of house arrest after a US national was arrested for swimming across a lake and breaking into her compound; this provided the regime with an excuse to charge her with breaching the conditions of her detention, although the man had apparently not been invited to visit. Critics say the arrest and continued detention were designed to keep her away from the public eye until elections scheduled to take place in 2010. For the Burmese people, Ms Suu Kyi, 64, represents their best and perhaps sole hope that one day there will be an end to the country's military repression.
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- Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]
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- 1 digital cartoon(s), Works of art, Digital images, Cartoons (Commentary)
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"Awww... So close, yet so far." 14 August 2009. Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]. Ref: DCDL-0012016. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23113572More information can be found in our terms of use.