Comment on “Aung San Suu Kyi’s Residence Auctioned: Long-standing Detention Site Symbolizing Democracy” [in Japanese]
On January 26, 2024, a comment of Professor Maiko Ichihara of the Graduate School of Law on the Asahi Shimbun article, “Aung San Suu Kyi’s Residence Auctioned: Long-standing Detention Site Symbolizing Democracy” was published. This article is about the auction of a house known as the residence where Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was once held under house arrest, and which is also considered a symbolic site of Myanmar’s democratization movement. Professor Ichihara noted that authoritarians tend to fear symbols that might have the power to mobilize forces against them, and commented that in this case, they are probably eager to remove the place and building as a symbol of Aung San Suu Kyi from the control of others and reduce the influence of pro-democracy forces.
