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March 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
She has built nine schools, three clinics and helped more than 6,000 local
people get free hospital treatment. She has won funding to upgrade public
lavatories and construct nine temples, four mosques and nunneries. “I
got free treatment for 6,301 people in the clinics and free funerals for
165. My microcredit service has provided loans for 4,711 families. I will
win,” she said.
She has helped more people than her husband got votes in the constituency when
he won the seat at the 2010 election, and believes voters will care more for
her good work and President Thein Sein’s reforms than the sacrifice and
profile of Ms Suu Kyi.
Sonny Nyunt Thein, the head of Myanmar Egress, a think tank behind many of the
president’s recent reforms, believes the USDP will win several seats where
it has good candidates and will benefit from Thein Sein’s unexpected rush
for reform.
Since August last year when the president met Ms Suu Kyi, he has released most
political prisoners, struck a series of ceasefires in wars with ethnic rebel
groups, relaxed media controls and censorship and persuaded the NLD leader
to return her party to electoral politics.
But despite her own widespread popularity in the country, Mr Thein believes
the president’s party will win support for leading the reforms and the
distance he has put between himself and the former military regime.
“It’s a new government, a new set-up with new institutions. Everyone has
been talking about the issue [of democracy] for years and he wants it to be
settled. It has disturbed the country with this big opposition party, the
Lady [Ms Suu Kyi’s nickname] and ethnic groups. It is a ceasefire between
Myanmar and its development – because of the sanctions no one can come and
invest here,” he said.
Thein Sein’s reforms had their roots in a Seven Step Programme supported by
the former dictator Than Shwe in 2004, which envisaged a “disciplined
democratic system” through a new constitution and elections. But none
of the leaders who succeeded him until Thein Sein, a former general himself,
managed to implement it, he said.
There has been widespread concern that his move towards democracy might not
have the support of hardliners within the military – a fear voiced by Ms Suu
Kyi yesterday – but the president is in complete control, Mr Thein said, and
the generals have no desire to interfere in politics.
“He is a good listener. He listened to us. We did encourage him to make
all this happen but he has a free hand. This is his time, there is no one
above him, he’s fully in charge and I believe he has the full support of the
military,” he said.
Although the president admires the development of neighbouring countries like
Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, it is Indonesia which has had most
influence – by inspiring him to reserve 25 per cent of parliamentary seats
for the country’s military.
Ms Suu Kyi has strongly criticised this and said she will use her party’s
position in the parliament after the by-elections to persuade the military
it is in its interests to withdraw from politics altogether.
She
launched a strong attack on the government on Friday, accusing
officials of waging a campaign to sabotage her party’s election campaign and
calling on European Union monitors to investigate irregularities and
intimidation in the campaign.
“I hope they will take into consideration the fact that the freeness and
fairness of an election does not depend merely on the day of the polling
itself but on what went before that day and I hope you will find out as much
as possible about what’s been taking place over the last couple of months,”
she said in her first appearance since she fell ill from exhaustion earlier
this week.
She also cast doubt on whether she would support the lifting of sanctions
after the elections and warned no foreign investment would be profitable
without the rule of law. “Let’s wait and see,” she said.
Back in Rangoon’s Taung Nyant township, Lei Lei Aye, a former student at the
Myanmar Egress think tank, was reciting her lines for today’s final day of
campaigning. “All the people of Myanmar appreciate the president
because he is giving people democracy. I’m not worried about Aung San Suu
Kyi,” she said.
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