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A comment on Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi. Parent comment

Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by davidhyde on Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:36AM (#18031449)
> Conversely the South African "truth and reconciliation commission" seems to have played a part in the healing of that country - but at the cost of leaving crimes unpunished.

You punish people to deter others for committing the same crime. The other benefit, revenge, has a scope that is too narrow to benefit the masses. So, if you are replacing an evil regime with a new regime and there is no possibility that the old regime will come back (apartheid has run by a small minority of the population) then there is no benefit from punishing past crimes. This is why the "truth and reconciliation commission" was so successful.

Very few countries can boast to such a peaceful political turnaround.

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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by maze-le on Thursday September 20, 2018 @08:43AM (#18031876)
>> Very few countries can boast to such a peaceful political turnaround.

I'd say most countries in Eastern Europe and some in South America certainly can boast that. Political changes don't nessecarily have to be bloody, violent affairs.

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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by M_Bakhtiari on Friday September 21, 2018 @04:16AM (#18038033)
> Very few countries can boast to such a peaceful political turnaround.

Or such a slow descent into tyranny. Let's see when Julius Malema and his supporters eventually do call for the eradication of white people.

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