Aung San Suu put country first

After arriving in Ireland from Norway where she had received the Nobel Peace Prize and a million dollar cheque, Aung San Suu collected her Amnesty award.

It was amusing to see so many politicians and celebrities fawning over her and doing their utmost to be photographed in her company.

Yet it wasn’t until she visited London to collect another government award that a female Sky reporter asked her whether she had any regrets about abandoning her husband and two sons.

We should recall that when her husband was dying of prostate cancer in the UK, the Burmese military government granted her permission to visit him, which she declined.

She told the reporter that she didn’t regret not leaving Burma to visit her husband as she was worried that she wouldn’t be allowed back into Burma once she left.

So it seems Aung San Suu put her political agenda for her country before her own family, which I don’t believe is so noble after all.

Gordon Cunningham

Donaghmede

Dublin