Aung San Suu Kyi - Junta can’t last forever

TODAY, as we mark the 40th anniversary of that terrible indictment of the North’s then corrupted democracy — the Battle of the Bogside — it is important to remember that many of the world’s population still live in a society where they have little or no say in how that society is run or who runs it.

Yesterday’s conviction by a Burmese court of Aung San Suu Kyi is a reminder of how raw, unchallenged power was used in the North all those years ago.

The North’s evolution from a deeply divided and terror-torn community to something approaching a normal society may not be a daily topic of conversation in Burma but it is an example of how violence and suppression cannot last forever and that, eventually, every dictatorship, and every brutal junta, falls.