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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 lr4444lr on Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:37AM (#18031458)
No one expected a miracle, but she was a Nobel Peace Prize recipient! She could have done much more to prevent the atrocities happening to the Rohingya.
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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by coldtea on Thursday September 20, 2018 @08:40AM (#18031857)
>but she was a Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Wasn't Obama as well? And he maintained a torture camp, occupying forces, and tons of bombings.

The "Nobel Peace Prize" is a political tool, not some valuable metric.

Someone mentioned Kissinger having one as well...

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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by cuboidGoat on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:03AM (#18032502)
Obama was the first Nobel peace price recipient to bomb another Nobel prize recipient after getting the award, after an airstrike on an MSF hospital.

Kissinger is also responsible for bombing of another Nobel Peace prize winner, however he ordered the secret bombing in Laos and Cambodia that destroyed Red Cross facilities shortly before getting his, rather than shortly after.

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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by coldtea on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:45AM (#18033307)
>Obama was the first Nobel peace price recipient to bomb another Nobel prize recipient after getting the award, after an airstrike on an MSF hospital.

Yeah, it would have been awkward in the subsequent Nobel alumni meeting...

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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by pjc50 on Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:49AM (#18031522)
So was Henry Kissinger.

I don't really understand the detail of the situation of her release and taking power but I'm starting to suspect we may have been lied to, or at least given a drastically oversimplified version of events.

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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by DoreenMichele on Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:41AM (#18031477)
She could have done much more to prevent the atrocities happening to the Rohingya.

Such as?

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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by Freak_NL on Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:48AM (#18031518)
Actually using the name Rohingya, for a start¹.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_people#Denial_of_the_...

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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by bilbo0s on Thursday September 20, 2018 @09:18AM (#18032173)
>Such as?

I'm no policing expert, but I think a start might be arresting the assailants. I mean in a lot of cases, the videos are being posted to the assailant's Facebook. Now again, I'm no crack detective, but that seems like some evidence you could use to me.

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Re:Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar... by bogomipz on Thursday September 20, 2018 @09:10AM (#18032114)
Truthfully address the crisis:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/20/fact-check-aun...

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