Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fawned over Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s pro-democracy campaigner and helped her to win office, but the female Burmese leader is now being regarded as a war criminal for her government’s scorched-earth military operation that so far has created 410,000 refugees.
Clinton worked tirelessly to help Suu Kyi behind the scenes, culminating in Suu Kyi’s 2015 election to a post called “state counselor,” the equivalent of prime minister.
In her 2014 memoir, “Hard Choices,” Clinton breathlessly endorsed Suu Kyi, comparing her to some of the most heralded statesmen of our time.
“She exhibited qualities I had glimpsed before” Clinton wrote, “including Nelson Mandela and Václav Havel. Like them, she carried the hopes of a nation on her shoulders.” Havel was a Czech dissident and the Czech Republic’s first president after the fall of communism.
“You have been an inspiration, I told Suu Kyi,” Clinton wrote. “You are standing for all the people of your country who deserve the same rights and freedoms of people everywhere.” – READ MORE
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